Gaming

First Advice

Kubuntu is great, Steam is great, Proton is great, etc. etc.  Still, always update; I do it before I play each and every time.  This includes checking Driver Manager for updates to video card drivers as well.  It sometimes breaks things, but if I'm desperate to play, I can roll things back.  Oh, and Steam allows you to choose different Proton versions.  

It has mostly been a good experience.  In the past, an upgrade to Proton or the game wrecks it.  Before being able to choose the Proton version, I'd wait a week and it'd be sorted out pretty quick.  But now with multiple versions, the system is hardly ever down.

Proton Tricks

I do like Skyrim and had played it quite a bit on a PS3.  So this is mostly about Skyrim Special Edition on Kubuntu/Steam/Proton at this point.  It is hard to find a place that compiles all the tweaks.  There is someone maintaining a python app called Proton Tricks.  It's a wrapper for WineTricks to be used with Steam/Proton.  Use it at your own risk, I make no guarantees.  I've not had to do any tweaks since going to Kubuntu 22.04, so that's the end of it for now.

Appendix A - FTP Games

I like Steam, so don't take this section as bashing Steam (too much).  I'm embarrassed at how much I've spent and even more so about how much I haven't played for what I've spent.  Anyways...

I do wish they would not obfuscate getting to the Free-To-Play games they have in their catalog.  The Free-To-Play games do not show up in your Library when setting up a new machine.  They do show in your purchase history.  Really silly, like they are second class citizens.  Anyways, here is a list of ones I don't want to forget (either to check out or because I play):

• Endless Sky

• Destiny 2 (you have to pay for the DLCs)

• Warframe

• Galcon 2

• Team Fortress 2

• Dota 2

• Modern Combat 5

• Robocraft

• Neverwinter (not Neverwinter Nights)

Appendix B - Hmmm?

Why have just one Appendix? :-P