Can this be played on Linux? I was about to buy on Steam but noticed it only listed Windows and macOS system requirements and I don’t want to buy something that’ll sit in my library unplayable.
I’m a bit out of my depth here since I’ve never interacted with Linux in anything but a rudimentary manner. Everything that follows is stuff I’ve just looked up.
Anyway, the game does not officially support Linux, but according to users it seems to run fine in Proton, which makes sense as it’s a lightweight 18-MB game with no demanding hardware requirements.
Proton is a new tool released by Valve Software that has been integrated with Steam Play to make playing Windows games on Linux as simple as hitting the Play button within Steam. Underneath the hood, Proton comprises other popular tools like Wine and DXVK among others that a gamer would otherwise have to install and maintain themselves.
How to enable Proton / Steam Play?
It can be enabled in Steam → Settings → Steam Play. (A screenshot of the settings page can be found in step 3 here.)
(That “Steam Play” option is not available for me. I’m not sure if that’s because I’ve installed Steam on a Windows 7 PC, or because it’s only available in the Steam beta branch. If it’s the latter, you’ll first have to join it via Steam → Settings → Account → Beta Participation → Change → Steam Beta Update, and then probably restart Steam.)
Then what?
Anyway, once you’ve enabled Proton, apparently you can just start Understand as if you were on Windows. ProtonDB says that the game will run just fine, but if you buy the game and it still doesn’t work, Steam has a no-questions-asked refund policy within 2h of playtime and 14 days of purchase. Or I could gift you a copy for your troubles, and if you can’t run it on Steam with Proton, you can still refund it and I’ll apparently get the money back.
This seems to be a good solution. It worked for my machine out of the box (after clicking though some warnings about how I understand that this is experimental).
Yeah, almost everything on steam works on linux. Even games like Titanfall 2. The main reason is; valve made a console called the steamdeck, that runs linux, so they have a real interest in making windows emulators work well. The other reason is computational universalizability.
I don’t bother with linux steam, I just boot steam within lutris. Lutris just automates config / wraps wine plus a gui, so lutris will make steam think it’s within windows and then everything that steam launches will also think it’s within windows. Tho admittedly I don’t use steam a lot (lutris takes excellent care of me for non-steam things)
Can this be played on Linux? I was about to buy on Steam but noticed it only listed Windows and macOS system requirements and I don’t want to buy something that’ll sit in my library unplayable.
I’m a bit out of my depth here since I’ve never interacted with Linux in anything but a rudimentary manner. Everything that follows is stuff I’ve just looked up.
Anyway, the game does not officially support Linux, but according to users it seems to run fine in Proton, which makes sense as it’s a lightweight 18-MB game with no demanding hardware requirements.
What is Proton?
How to enable Proton / Steam Play?
It can be enabled in Steam → Settings → Steam Play. (A screenshot of the settings page can be found in step 3 here.)
(That “Steam Play” option is not available for me. I’m not sure if that’s because I’ve installed Steam on a Windows 7 PC, or because it’s only available in the Steam beta branch. If it’s the latter, you’ll first have to join it via Steam → Settings → Account → Beta Participation → Change → Steam Beta Update, and then probably restart Steam.)
Then what?
Anyway, once you’ve enabled Proton, apparently you can just start Understand as if you were on Windows. ProtonDB says that the game will run just fine, but if you buy the game and it still doesn’t work, Steam has a no-questions-asked refund policy within 2h of playtime and 14 days of purchase. Or I could gift you a copy for your troubles, and if you can’t run it on Steam with Proton, you can still refund it and I’ll apparently get the money back.
This seems to be a good solution. It worked for my machine out of the box (after clicking though some warnings about how I understand that this is experimental).
Yeah, almost everything on steam works on linux. Even games like Titanfall 2. The main reason is; valve made a console called the steamdeck, that runs linux, so they have a real interest in making windows emulators work well. The other reason is computational universalizability.
Maybe with an emulator e.g. Wine. See e.g. here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/462030/can-i-play-windows-games-using-wine-and-or-through-steam
https://www.protondb.com/app/1299400
I don’t bother with linux steam, I just boot steam within lutris. Lutris just automates config / wraps wine plus a gui, so lutris will make steam think it’s within windows and then everything that steam launches will also think it’s within windows. Tho admittedly I don’t use steam a lot (lutris takes excellent care of me for non-steam things)