I am brave enough to say it: The ocean has water in it.
Praise me for my braveness.
i think this bravery is worthy of a marble carving. 12 stories tall, of you pointing at the ocean
Next you’ll say the ocean is a soup.
Salt, meat, vegetables–it is soup.
Wtf. MODSSSSS
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Big if true.
I was so reluctant to transition to Linux for gaming. I’ve been using Linux since 2007, so I’m not new to the OS.
I took the plunge a handful of months ago, and it is an amazing experience. The games I like to play actually saw performance gains when switching over.
I still dual boot a Win 10 partition for outliers, but so far the only game to get installed there has been BF6, due to the requirements of their anti-cheat.
It’s funny. I also was very hesitant to make the jump from Windows, but finally did in 2025. I was dual booting for a while until I realized I hadn’t been into the Windows one in months because it was a pain in the ass for various reasons. So I just got rid of it.
I’ve made peace with the fact that I won’t be able to play certain games. Their loss; there’s plenty of other games to buy with my money.
I’ve made peace with the fact that I won’t be able to play certain games. Their loss; there’s plenty of other games to buy with my money.
Same.
I have a backlog of games years long, the fact that I can’t put Battlefield or Valorant on that list doesn’t diminish my ability to play amazing games 24/7 if I wanted.
Expedtion 33, Blue Prince, Hollow Knight, Silksong, Hades 2, ARC Raiders, Helldivers 2, Path of Exile 2, Deep Rock Galactic, etcetcetc.
I have over 200 games in my Steam library and every single one works on Linux. I’ll worry about the 5 kernel anti-cheat games once I get to the end of my list…
TBH I don’t understand what’s there even to be reluctant about if you’re already a Linux user. You’ve probably already been dualbooting, it’s not exactly a lot of effort to install Steam or a gog Linux installer.
How shit gaming had been on it, for the majority of it’s lifetime.
For me, it’s Final Fantasy XI - it’s a million years old and it actually does run fine on Linux, but some of the third party QOL tools I use to make it less painful to play don’t work (or at least I can’t figure out how to get them to work) through Lutris.
The games I like to play actually saw performance gains when switching over.
Yes. That’s part what got me to let go of my dual-booting habit.
When booted to Windows, I would get tempted to play something (that I had installed on both sides) lazily without rebooting back to Linux, and it would suck.
THIS is the year.
Posts 30 year old photo of Linus
Posts 30 year old photo of Linus sourced from Getty Images. They paid for the image to discuss FOSS.
While talking about the PC desktop in a gaming magazine.
As a 20+ year Linux user, no shit. It’s been great every year.
I have been a user since around 2000, I work in Linux every day, and I get where you’re coming from - but in the context of gaming Linux has really only recently come into its own.
Like, could you imagine, circa 2010, telling a naive user that practically their whole Steam library would work with one click? Wine has always been a minor miracle, but at some point there was an inversion between being surprised when it worked, and being surprised that it didn’t work…
I used to be shocked when a game ran in wine without any manual intervention. Now I’m shocked when it doesn’t!
Only game I played on Linux before Proton was Minecraft Java (cracked) for Ubuntu in like 2014.
In fairness, it can be easy to go an entire decade playing almost nothing but Minecraft…
At the time, I was running on an very old 2004 Dell Win XP laptop and it still had alright performance.
These days on my full gaming PC, I get amazing MC performance, like 300+ fps vs my friend on W10 gets like 130+ fps.
Linux stays winning!
As someone who gamed on Linux in 2005, I can tell you that the experience was generally garbage back then.
I still remember making a bug report about the then ATI driver - performance tanked in certain situations in ut2k4, a game with a native Linux build. After months, they released a “fixed” driver which disabled some feature - so the game looked worse but didn’t lag.
Then I was trying to get Enemy Territory (and its total conversion TC:E) - another native Linux game - to play nice. I ended up running a second X server so that I could alt tab, but that made sound even more interesting than it already was back then; a friend actually shipped me a PCI sound card to be able to use teamspeak in Linux.
Then came source games, which worked but were choppy and missing some graphical niceties. Then I gave up, bought a laptop so I didn’t have to dual boot my pc, and never looked back.
Some of y’all are showing your bubble side; outside of our communities here, Linux very much is obscure. That said, there really does seem to be a leak in the mainstream and it’s nice to see it mentioned in a publication. Even if just a little gain, thanks in large part to Steam raising awareness for gamers, US decline in Europe and Canada, and Windows 11 blunders with security.
I’ve gone from people being completely oblivious when I mention Linux, to going “oh, like steam deck?” but there’s still plenty of others who still are oblivious. Then again, mentioning file extensions goes over the heads of 95% of who I talk to, so I wouldn’t have too high hopes.
I think it’s also down to windows 11 being increasingly enshitified, and unwanted AI stuff being forced on users. A lot of people are frustrated and are more open to alternatives.
Idk one of my siblings who I never chalked up as a non-windows user and not particularly tech savvy sent me a screenshot of their linux install. If like the tech barriers to linux are falling then the only thing left to fall is software developers for commercial software.
Idk one of my siblings who I never chalked up as a non-windows user and not particularly tech savvy sent me a screenshot of their linux install.
Yes. 2026 was an interesting year for Linux desktop.
More of my friends installed Linux in response to Windows 11 than I imagined possible.
I think I noticed a correlation with their having a kid in the house who owned a SteamDeck. There’s a generation who are learning Linux in order to mod their games.
I built a high end Steam machine in October. I haven’t played many Windows games since. There are games I can’t play, like Space Marine 2, but I have so much that I can play I’m kind of fine with it. Being able to PC game in the living room with an OS that is well formatted for TV play is wonderful.
Space Marine 2 no Linux?
It runs like butt. It’s optimized for Windows, apparently.
That’s a shame. But hopefully by the time I’ll buy it in 2 years or something on deep discount, it has better support or optimization.
That’s the thing about PC gaming, right? There’s always hope someone will figure it out.
I switched my gaming pc to Linux and all the games I tried so far worked good.
Switching the household’s PCs to avoid the Windows 11 BS here. All my stuff is good so far, but the kids have a few games that don’t work - Minecraft Bedrock, Fortnite, and Roblox.
time to switch them to java edition, bedrock sucks anyway
Probably for the best, lol. At the very least, Roblox isn’t particularly good for kids.
Also, modded Minecraft through Prism beats bedrock any day of the week. I’m hoping when my kids are of age, they’ll be down for an expert pack. My daughter sure as hell will be, she’s as weird as I am. I’m sure more normal kids have packs they’d enjoy, though.
Mine are playing Minecraft and Roblox under Linux without problems. I don’t remember what I did for Minecraft, but for Roblox you need something called ‘Sober’.
Minecraft runs natively. One version is Java, so thats easy enough. I think the C++ version has an installer.
If your kids really need Roblox to work, they could try Sober. I personally don’t play Roblox, so I’ve never tried it, but I’ve heard good things about it.
I’ll take whatever positive press Linux can get at this point. More people switching over is a good thing.
I hate PCGamer’s website. Everytime I get partway through an article, a pop-up shows asking me to sign up to their newsletter. Now the pop-up alone would turn me off of their website, but what happens is the pop-up scrolls the article all the way back to the top of the page. So I completely lose my reading position.
PCGamer isn’t the only site to do this, but I think it’s one of the more popular ones that do.
The other thing that sites do now that earns an instant DNS block on my pihole, is capturing the back action that prevents leaving the site to show a pop-up that says “wait, before you go, check out these other articles” or something along those lines. HELL… NO!
This is why people like quotes, not just links. I friggin hate the ads
The other thing that sites do now that earns an instant DNS block on my pihole, is capturing the back action that prevents leaving the site to show a pop-up that says “wait, before you go, check out these other articles” or something along those lines. HELL… NO!
I would like to find the dev who came up with this and shit on his lawn after eating two weeks of burritos.
Yeah, DHTML popups aren’t much different from the old popups that used to plague the internet. The only real difference is that I haven’t seen them used maliciously like the old popups were to be super annoying, but even “good faith” uses were all “hey, stop what you’re doing and do this for me” without any shame that went along with a real person doing that in a store.
I look forward to the day someone gets an AI to block this shit (on the assumption that it’s more complicated than blocking the old style popups without interfering with legitimate DHTML and needs context awareness).
Wow. So brave.
I only have one problem with my linux mint distro: Sometimes cheats for video games don’t work.
Like I like to use savegame editors for Cyberpunk 2077, but they don’t work on linux despite all my attempts, and PINCE (Pince Is Not Cheat Engine) works for almost all games but just not for some.
And that, ladies and gentlemen (and all those in between or neither) is when I finally found a reason to actually code after tinkering on-off for decades: I want to make those save game editors for linux! That is something that legit doesn’t exist but needs to.
Made the switch during Christmas to Cachyos. I am extremely glad I did, and so relieved to finally be free of Microsofts clammy grasp.
I already stopped playing online competitive games long ago, so the anti-cheat thing isn’t really a problem for me. All the games I want to play works fine, even better in fact than they did on Windows.
PC Gamer saying this is a good sign though, still one of the most popular special interest magazines that’s not porn
I made the switch this year
This person’s writing style is, frankly, well, pretty obnoxious.
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At least it’s not AI
Still anxious that there’s no clear roadmap for linux gaming after gaben passes (Hopefully decades until then).
That’s the beauty of it - Valve has done generous and miraculous things for Linux, using their money to fund work towards a common goal of both the users and their corporation.
But it doesn’t go away if they do. Valve cannot close Pandora’s box. The compatibility layers are open and accessible to the community and cannot be taken away.
IFF it becomes the standard before he dies, it might become as sticky as Windows was — but without enshittification.
