Happy Linux player. I play mostly single player so I don’t have many issues. For anyone thinking about switching
- if your games are on steam it’s really easy to run them and most of the times you just have to install them and press play
- if a game is new you may need to switch it to a newer version of Proton while the main one gets updated. It takes 2 clicks to open the compatibility settings tab and then you can select the version
- if a game needs a custom setting to run you’ll probably read it on protondb and it takes 2 clicks to add it
- go on protondb and log with your steam account to check how many of your games are compatible, gold or platinum means it’s good
- compatibility gets better every week
- mods may be harder to install
- Linux is easy to use
- Nvidia cards works well on Linux
- yes, sometimes you may break it but you can also fix it. The official windows forum is a graveyard full of “you have to reinstall windows”
- you can try Linux without installing it (but don’t use it for gaming or stuff that need reboots because live install lose changes)
- dual boot works so you don’t need to drop windows immediately
This is my protondb compatibility tab for around 1600 games
Gaming was the missing piece for me for years, and I’m happily gaming on Linux now with little to no hassle.
The biggest annoyance I’ve faced is that discord isn’t auto-detecting some games when streaming to friends, which is such a minor thing.
Try Vesktop
I’ve been gaming in Linux since the days Unreal Tournament had a Linux version, or even before that.
The only game I want to play that still doesn’t work is Heretic II, which probably is based on some cursed DX9 engine or something.
Newer games I don’t even bother to check before buying, they just work.
Edit: Hexen, not Heretic.
No percentage is good enough for PCMR. Long live Microsoft’s Master Race!
(I’m being ironic, obviously.)
Only go to Reddit if you want to read outrage-based contrarianism (now with AI!)
Currently on Steam:
19338 games are compatible with Linux and SteamOS
While there are 145462 games on Steam
Which only translates to 13,3% of games on Steam being compatible with Linux.
It is better than before, but where the fuck do they get 90% from?
Iirc correctly, those are just the Linux native ones. A game doesn’t have to be native to play just fine on Linux though.
I ran a fresh win 10 vm to debug an RGB mic, and it was surprisingly how much garbage it shoves on you on a fresh install. ads, OneDrive, bunch of crap. Linux by comparison is much nicer to deal with.
