Slowly but surely 👀 Proton and Steam Deck really changed the game for Linux gaming.
Games will just work these days, its amazing. Except when they want to run anti-cheat as a kernel module… And I dont want those games anyway.
I play all kinds of games and they just work. Sometimes you have to adjust the settings a bit, but to be honest, that is rarely the case. At first I had problems because I wanted mod support for Cyberpunk 2077 and I tried to get the Nexus apps to work (any of them) and it just would not work. But then, someone suggested the native Linux app Limo which works very well for me for installing and administrating mods. For installing and starting the games, I used to use Lutris a long time ago, but now I rely on Heroic Games Launcher, and unlike Lutris, it has not let me down so far.
I use Bazzite btw.
I’ve been running games that advertise they run in linux for a few years, but only within the last 6 months or so started trying out made-for-Windows games, and it’s really incredible just how good the Proton compatibility layer is now. All of the games I’ve tried are at least playable - most run perfectly, a few are a bit slow, and some you have to tweak settings but there’s a big database of how to get different games to work at appdb.winehq.org. Not one of the games in my library don’t run on linux at all, other than a couple with kernel anti-cheats that I don’t play any more anyway.
I was dual-booting but a couple months ago I deleted my Windows partition and now I just run linux full time. If a game only runs on Windows, I just won’t buy it.
While that page is great I think for proton https://www.protondb.com/ is a lot easier as you don’t have to be aware of how proton wraps wine to apply the fixes from winehq.
oh, proton and how it integrates has been that good for at least 2 years now
Looks like an error.
There’s ‘0 64bit’ and ‘64bit’ along with huge number of ‘others’
There’s not a single Fedora based distro on the list, looks like they have problem identifying it.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it got counted multiple times in this mess.
My bet is once they sort it out, Linux will be back to 2.5%
I hope windows 12 pushes even more AI. The shitter it gets, the more people move to linux.
I’m bringing three more people home in the coming weeks.
Going to add one more PC in day or 2. The courier company is holding my PSU. GIVE ME MY PSU!!!
You bought a PC? In this economy?
I guess now is as good as time as ever, because they are only going to become more rare and expensive going forward. If you have the money for it of course.
Maybe, maybe not. I wonder if after the AI bubble pops (whenever that happens - crosses fingers) data centers will close and suddenly have to liquidate a bunch of assets. Kinda like what happened after the NFT crash.
The NFT crash was more digital assets with no other use-case. I can imagine there is a slight drop in adjustment pricing but if large resellers and producers want continued massive profits they will just keep the prices inflated like we’ve seen with so many other money grabs after the covid-pandemic.
Actually, at least RAM prices are currently dropping.
most likely bought it in parts over a period of time, before everything went to shit as much as it is now
A lot of mainstream TechTubers have been doing Linux content and challenges lately. Dankpods, LTT, Jay, etc. I think its really having an effect on people realizing they have other options outside Windows.
Shout out to Switch and click doing a run through of different distros as well. Probably the best from a “normie” perspective IMO.
Love following her journey. Most recent one she tried was endeavourOS for arch-with-training-wheels
I’ve seen those videos pop up in my recommended, but haven’t watched them yet. Might give it a watch later today, I really enjoyed the one video I watched of hers.
It makes me sad Wade said he wasn’t gonna do Linux videos anymore because the videos didn’t do well, especially his Linux Olympics video. Sure his testing methodology wasn’t perfect but for the every man type of tech tuber usually playing with old crap electronics he’s a good point of entry for that type of audience
The methodology is logical considering the constraints he has and set, IMO
I got my not-quite-as-techy friend to switch, and they’re like a week in and already so pissed off about how bad windows was.
I have the opposite experience. They want to hate linux so much that they complain about everything they have to do differently. I told them to just use windows please
I dream about the times when all software and games are made for Linux first and have Windows users use Wine lol.
I mean, cross compiling is a thing. It has never been easier to build an agnostic game and compile it for different OS.
Year of the Linux desktop, baby!
I do most of my gaming on Linux now.
It’s better than macOS has ever been, and I’m playing less PlayStation than I used to.
There’s a lot of smaller games I’m enjoying, like Esoteric Ebb or Slay the Spire 2
I do all my gaming on linux now. I consciously stopped playing online competitive games several years ago already, because I found that they stressed me out more than they entertained me, so I have no problem with most of those not working on linux.
Getting away from those felt as much of a relief as getting away from Windows was, so literally win-win for me.
Same. I just don’t bother with games that don’t run on Linux anymore. I’ve got so many games, it’s not a big deal if I can’t play some even if I did pay for them.
For a little over a year now, “deck verified” directly controls my purchases lol. The markets so saturated and there are so many great games that either directly run under Linux, or run perfect with proton. I just skip the titles that don’t. So far, all my must play games work. Pound sand, shit developers and windows.
A great deal of non-deck verified games also work out of the box. ProtonDB has good information about how well something will run on Linux.
Even the game’s page on steam is usually useful. If you click on details in the deck verified page it tells you exactly why it’s not verified. Most of the time it’s something like not selecting the deck’s screen resolution by default, or needing the keyboard to enter a character’s name.
It’s tried, I have a lot installed. But it’s just so easy with the verified ones when it all just works with minimal mucking around
Definitely feels like it’s snowballing. From barely moving for like a decade after 2012 to really pumping after the Steam Deck came out. Hoping hardware shortages can be resolved well enough for the Steam Machine to hit. It’s the perfect form factor to me for my living room to finally make couch multiplayer comfortable for me and guests
I bet whoever at Valve that looks over this data was very confused because I got prompted for the hardware survey on my M1 MacBook Pro running Asahi. They probably looked at the reported hardware and scratched their head
Edit: actually, two of my systems probably made them scratch their heads. My main rig has a 7800XT as a main GPU and a 3090 as a secondary (video encoding/local LLM usage) and they both show up in my system info lol
