• electric_nan@lemmy.ml
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        8 months ago

        If you already use Steam, you might be surprised by how many games are supported on Linux now. Lookup protondb.

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            8 months ago

            40% are verified as at least playable on the steam deck. Another 40% seem to have no rating at all.

            74% are at least gold tier in user ratings, which basically means they run fine.

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            8 months ago

            Are you going to claim that you play 400 games, let alone 1000? Besides, you can always use windows in a VM and do GPU pass-through. But i guess the convenience of windows is hard to give Only time will tell when people will get fed up of taken for a ride by corporations.

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        8 months ago

        Source? I game a lot on Linux and have only ever found two games which I couldn’t play on Linux. Genshin and valorant which have incompatible anti-cheats.

        That’s not to say that most games which have anticheats don’t work. A lot of them I’ve tried do work like helldivers 2, ow2, titanfall 2.

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        8 months ago

        If you can invest 30 bucks, crossover claims to make any windows app work seamlessly in linux. Otherwise, there’s still wine to cover 90% usecases.

        Worst case, you can run windows in a VM.

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            8 months ago

            Then this discussion doesn’t apply to those people. I don’t like the argument that Linux isn’t ready for mainstream yet but the reasons quoted are often some game that is itself a niche.

            Edit: this is why I specifically said 90% use cases in my previous comment.