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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[+] _cerpin_taxt_ -15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

and that's a non issue nowadays.

Again, this community is delusional lol. If you consider only about 5% of Steam games being Linux-friendly these days as "a non issue nowadays," I'd hate to see your game library.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I game on linux regularly, primarily thanks to Valve. In the last 2 months steam lists 11 different games I've "Played Recently".

7 worked flawlessly (Baldur's Gate 3, Destroy All Humans!, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Besiege, Deep Rock Galactic, Shotgun King, Call of Cthulhu)
1 the native linux version doesn't work, but the windows version works perfectly (Northgard)
1 didn't initially work, but worked a month later after proton was updated. (Grounded)
1 I had to choose an older version of Proton (due to the external launcher breaking things), but with enough performance hitching during cutscenes that I chose to just play it on windows (Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order)
1 I couldn't get to work, but I honestly don't know if it's a linux issue because the game's discussion forums are full of people saying the game is riddled with game breaking bugs on windows (The Sinking City)

I've been gaming on linux for a couple of years now, over that time I've put many hours into WoW, Sea of Thieves, Rimworld, Golf with your Friends, Core Keeper, Outer Wilds, and dozens more without any issues at all. 90%+ of the time the game starts up and just works.

I'm just one datapoint, but yeah, Linux as a gaming platform is totally viable for me these days.

Also, protondb lists 19% Verified and 16% Playable, so your 5% number is just demonstrably wrong.

Cheers.

[–] mrvictory1 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had to choose an older version of Proton

Which in turn caused the performance problems. Fast shader compilation extensions are available only on Proton 8 and newer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not sure why you're getting down voted, you're totally right. I wish I could have gotten it running on current proton as the recent performance updates are massive. Alas, EA Play ruined it. I found a GitHub issue for it and gave as much data as I could to help debug it.

Side note, when I ran the game on windows, EA Play was not only installed, but automatically configured to launch on startup. I just can't imagine an app ever doing that to me on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

If you consider only about 5% of Steam games being Linux-friendly these days

No matter how you twist and turn things, this is just flat out wrong..

[–] Bulletdust 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Survey says...No.

The only games that don't work are essentially the ones using DRM/anticheat implementations that don't support multiple platforms. Meaning more like 75% of all Windows titles work under Linux just fine.

[–] hardcoreufo 4 points 1 year ago

Most of what you are missing out on are games that require some form of anti cheat. Most other stuff just runs. Most new triple A games just run these days.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Again, this community is delusional lol. If you consider only about 5% of Steam games being Linux-friendly these days as “a non issue nowadays,” I’d hate to see your game library.

Speaking of delusional. You don't seem to have a whole lot of ideas about Linux gaming if you truly believe this ignorant nonsense.

79% of my library has a Silver or higher rating on ProtonDB, 65% are Gold or Platinum rated. For the Top 100 in Steam it's even better with 89% Silver+ and 79% Gold+. Of the Top 1000 Steam games it is 87% Silver+ and 75% Gold+. Even if we look at the entire Steam catalog we have 13% & 11% respectively, and that's only so low because there's literally just no reports. Only 1% of the titles are considered to be "Borked", another 1% are Bronze rated.
You can check the data for yourself here: https://www.protondb.com/
And again, that's just Steam and what has been tested by people. Most titles just run, others require minimal tweaking, some require a little tinkering.

[–] Hikiru 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm curious what the number is excluding top games with DRM or anti cheat incompatibility

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

DRM isn't really an issue. The main one that's used nowadays is Denuvo and that has no issues with Linux. Anticheat usually only for competitive games, which I personally don't give a damn. Other multiplayer games and their anticheat work fine, since they aren't on a kernel level type rootkit.