Funny you should mention that. I just tried to get rain working in AC using Proton. I sunk so many hours into it unsuccessfully that I decided to just buy ACC instead because it has rain built in.... After that experience it was very satisfying to select rain in the drop down and it just... rains.
EDIT: Automobilista2 has rain too. I was just angry at everything and ACC was my "throws hands up in exasperation" impulse purchase.
(I'm op, just using this account since federation is broken on my instance)
In my opinion as someone who's really rather bad at sim racing but tries to have fun, ACC "feels" better to me. I don't use VR, so that's not a consideration and I have no experience with that. There are on the other hand a lot more interesting cars and tracks in Automobilista2 than in ACC in my opinion. You can't go slide around a 60s era mini cooper on Nordschleif in ACC for example.
However, because I'm really bad, I tend to mostly want to do a quick 1v1 against my friends instead of competing in a big online race with lots of pressure, and for that Automobilista2 is better. ACC requires a dedicated server as far as I can tell and I have not yet gotten it running. It's not too bad, but more work than clicking "create new" and telling your friend the lobby password.
I'm copying my post over from here: https://infosec.pub/comment/788402 because federation on lemmy.ml seems not to be working right now.
AC works fine with a very small amount of effort for me. I found https://gist.github.com/tim-gromeyer/2fbce4609f7d6d330e81504bcea70546 to be helpful.
Dirt3 is going to be difficult. There was a lul in game development for steam based games around this time. Ferral was trying to make native ports (dirt rally) and also trying to make working proton ports but it was very early on in that effort. It resulted in a lot of games which "worked" when they were released with a bunch of hacks to get them working, followed by zero maintenance releases causing all those hacks to fail when Linux and supporting libraries were updated. No one was interested in fixing dependencies so some of these ports are unplayable now.
If you are interested in the dirt series and rally racing Dirt Rally 2.0 is worth the money in my opinion and works very well on linux.
My experience with arcade style games such as Forza Horizon 4 is that they don't handle input devices very well. Even in windows I believe you need software which emulates a G29 or something to get real sim racing hardware like separate wheel+pedal+handbrake usb devices working. I've had issues in carx drift that were similar but those were solvable.
My biggest trouble has been pedal support as my pedals are a standalone usb device with only 3 axes. protopedal and xboxdrv both can help workaround these.
Wheel support is hit or miss and you should be very careful what you buy right now. Have a look at the oversteer readme. There is a list of known drivers for various wheels. The logitec wheels, with the exception of their new DD wheel, are all in-tree and well supported without extra work. Other things like certain Fanatec and Thrustmaster models have their own community based reverse engineered drivers provided as loadable modules. And some things like higher end hardware, simucube, moza, etc. have zero support and FFB will not work.
My last piece of advice is: use gamescope. Especially if you are on wayland. It makes everything a million times easier and more stable.
Feel free to ask questions, most days I feel like playing with games to get them running on Linux is my actual hobby, and not playing the games.... =]
So.... Maybe I'm wrong about this, but doesn't Invidious basically do the same thing that Google AMP claims to do. Cache scraped web data and return it to users in a ~~faster~~private, and more direct way? Maybe Google should be agreeing to more TOSs =]
For me it was anyway. I think ge-proton has a lot to do with that though. There are tons of QOL patches in there.
I was having trouble remembering what the problems I had were but I'm pretty sure they were input device related. Also Trying to start multiplayer games with friends caused crashes sometimes.