Number of games is a weird statistic. What about market share of play time?
yes, but not marketshare played on linux, but rather, how much of the marketshare that's currently played on windows would be playable on linux.
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#22After being impressed with my Steam Deck, earlier this year I purchased an RX 9070XT (my first card from team red since the Radeon 9800 Pro) for my gaming PC and switched to linux full time. Now hundreds of hours in, I have nothing interesting to write about it. For me and the games I play it's been a seamless transition.
I found myself just never using my PC after getting a steamdeck. I had the deck plugged in to my TV most of the time. I recently just installed Bazzite on my PC and moved it to the TV so now I play on that all the time. What Valve has done to make gaming on linux work is remarkable.
I remember the days of having to manually install steam in Wine and how only a few games would work like that.
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#23There's really not many reasons left to not use Linux. With windows 11 it's only going to get better as more refugees switch
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#252003 me thought Wine is a dead end project and a waste of developer time. Granted valve put a lot of effort into Proton but they wouldn't even have considered it without the massive amount of work done before, kudus to all the non cynical wine devs
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#26That means 10% of windows games use invasive anti-cheat?
Yea, all the really popular online games are gonna be in that 10%. All i want is rocket league :( At least tf2 works
Does Rocket League no longer work with Proton? It used to work even better than both the native Linux and Windows versions for me back in the day. If not, what changed?
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#27That means 10% of windows games use invasive anti-cheat?
Yea, all the really popular online games are gonna be in that 10%. All i want is rocket league :( At least tf2 works
FWIW, Rocket League works just fine on Linux, but you need to set it to the Proton compatibility, not the native Linux client.
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#28Sadly Nucleus Coop us heavily focused on Windows
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#29Anecdotally, it's way above 90%.
I think the only game in the last 2 years I haven't been able to run is battlefield 6.
Any game that is reasonably popular has a very good chance of running. Just go to protondb and anything gold and above is generally good to go.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Worth noting that a lot of Windows (or DOS) games past may also not run well on current Windows versions. To be fair, anything old that wasn't famous has a decent chance to be broken under WINE too. It might just be a single call to some obscure animation API or something, but it can be enough to break the entire game.
Many old games work well. Check out protonDB before trying, but I have had good experience running older GoG games through proton.
If it's on GOG it probably wasn't that obscure.
Also, sometimes the original version doesn't work but the GOG version does, or even vice versa. I've seen all sorts of oddities.