• beastlykings@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    Wine need not apply. That’s old school. Sims 4 works great in proton. Basically just install steam and the rest is handled.

    Better yet, install bazzite as your distro, gaming works out of the box.

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      3 hours ago

      Proton is based on Wine, when people say Wine in a gaming context, there’s a decent chance they just mean Proton. Also there’s absolutely no need for gaming distros in this situation, gaming works out of the box on any (semi-normal) distro, the most you’ll have to do is flick a switch in Steam.

      Edit: Or in this case with the Sims install Lutris I guess, since it’s an EA game, but that also isn’t much more difficult

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        3 hours ago

        That’s fair, I’m a bit uninformed on wine and proton’s roots. However I’d argue that for someone like OPs girlfriend, a somewhat-immutable atomic based distro like bazzite might be better. Especially if it’s only used for gaming and YouTube 🤷‍♂️

        But different strokes for different folks, so perhaps they’d be better off just installing steam on their distro of choice 👍

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          1 hour ago

          if you try giving someone used to windows an immutable distro they will think that something is wrong or things are too confusing.