In case the option is not available, you may have to update to Steam Beta.

To enable Proton on Steam, go to Settings -> Steam Play and enable all the toggles under the Steam Play menu. Surprisingly, the Windows games run absolutely fine and you can check the compatibility status of many Windows games on ProtonDB. So you get amazing performance without much friction. It translates the Windows DirectX API to Vulkan or OpenGL API on Linux in real-time. Essentially, Proton is a compatibility layer (a modified version of Wine) between Windows and Linux. Other than that, Steam brought something called Proton in 2018 which basically allows you to play Windows games on Linux without VMware or any virtual machine. And that’s why the list of games under the SteamOS + Linux section is increasing day by day.

So if you connect the dots, most games available on Stadia will run fine on Linux as well due to direct porting by the studios. If you are not aware, Google Stadia runs on a Linux server. It’s largely because many big gaming studios are now developing games with Vulkan API to make their games available on Google Stadia.

As of now, Linux has improved by leaps and bounds in the desktop gaming segment. Before moving to the list, I want to shed some light on the state of Linux gaming in 2020.

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