Just a pet peeve of myself and probably plenty of other Linux users/fans. This phrasing makes it sound like there’s way more incompatible games than there are.
Out of the top 1000 games on Steam only 21 don’t work on Linux. I personally wouldn’t call that “plenty”. And for most of those games, the devs actively chose to make the game incompatible with Linux and Proton.
I get that the games you want to play aren’t compatible, and that makes you not willing to use Linux. That’s good and valid, and I have nothing against that. It’s just annoying when people (usually accidentally) exaggerate game compatibility issues on Linux.
There’s something to be said about the fact that I’m not super comfortable with doing everything with commands and am used to GUIs
I’d like to add that this is somewhat outdated information. While there are some distros where you still need the CLI a lot (mainly server distros), many of the mainstream distros have enough GUI support that 99% of users don’t need to touch the CLI. I switched to Nobara a few weeks ago and I haven’t needed to use the CLI yet.
It’s not the world’s smoothest transition.
Another thing to note is that the transition doesn’t have to be a hard break. Many people dip their toes into Linux by dual booting. That being said, there’s some pitfalls, namely not keeping Windows and Linux on the same drive, since Windows has a habit of deleting the bootloaders of other OS’s during updates.
But, as I said earlier, it’s fine if you want to stay on Windows. I just want to clarify some misunderstandings you seem to have about Linux
It’s mostly any game that has anti-cheat in it though isn’t it. It’s all well and good to say that only 21 games don’t work, but if they are the top most played games then it’s a bit of a problem.
I know it’s not Linux as fault that the games don’t work, but it’s daft to suggest that you can just brush it aside as not a concern. I have a steam deck so if a game is Linux supported I’ll just play it on that but until kennel level anti cheat is sorted (preferably by just getting rid of it) at least personally I’ll have to stick to windows on my desktop.
I took a look out of curiosity. These are the current top 20 games on SteamCharts.com, excluding a GTA V mod and Wallpaper engine and their ProtonDB rating:
Counter-Strike 2 [GOLD]
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS [BORKED]
Dota 2 [GOLD]
TBH: Task Bar Hero [GOLD]
Apex Legends™ [SILVER]
Path of Exile 2 [PLATINUM]
Bongo Cat [BORKED]
Rust [SILVER]
Slay the Spire 2 [PLATINUM]
Delta Force [BRONZE]
Don’t Starve Together [PLATINUM]
EA SPORTS FC™ 26 [BORKED]
Dead by Daylight [GOLD]
Warframe [GOLD]
Grand Theft Auto V Legacy [GOLD]
Stardew Valley [PLATINUM]
Forza Horizon 6 [GOLD]
Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced [GOLD]
Destiny 2 [BORKED]
Overwatch [PLATINUM]
As you can see, only 4 of these are unplayable (“borked”), and 1 has a “bronze” rating. So the majority of the currently top-played games are playable on Linux.
Though Obviously that doesn’t help you, if the game(s) you want to play aren’t playable on Linux
Just a pet peeve of myself and probably plenty of other Linux users/fans. This phrasing makes it sound like there’s way more incompatible games than there are.
https://www.protondb.com/
Out of the top 1000 games on Steam only 21 don’t work on Linux. I personally wouldn’t call that “plenty”. And for most of those games, the devs actively chose to make the game incompatible with Linux and Proton.
I get that the games you want to play aren’t compatible, and that makes you not willing to use Linux. That’s good and valid, and I have nothing against that. It’s just annoying when people (usually accidentally) exaggerate game compatibility issues on Linux.
I’d like to add that this is somewhat outdated information. While there are some distros where you still need the CLI a lot (mainly server distros), many of the mainstream distros have enough GUI support that 99% of users don’t need to touch the CLI. I switched to Nobara a few weeks ago and I haven’t needed to use the CLI yet.
Another thing to note is that the transition doesn’t have to be a hard break. Many people dip their toes into Linux by dual booting. That being said, there’s some pitfalls, namely not keeping Windows and Linux on the same drive, since Windows has a habit of deleting the bootloaders of other OS’s during updates.
But, as I said earlier, it’s fine if you want to stay on Windows. I just want to clarify some misunderstandings you seem to have about Linux
It’s mostly any game that has anti-cheat in it though isn’t it. It’s all well and good to say that only 21 games don’t work, but if they are the top most played games then it’s a bit of a problem.
I know it’s not Linux as fault that the games don’t work, but it’s daft to suggest that you can just brush it aside as not a concern. I have a steam deck so if a game is Linux supported I’ll just play it on that but until kennel level anti cheat is sorted (preferably by just getting rid of it) at least personally I’ll have to stick to windows on my desktop.
I took a look out of curiosity. These are the current top 20 games on SteamCharts.com, excluding a GTA V mod and Wallpaper engine and their ProtonDB rating:
As you can see, only 4 of these are unplayable (“borked”), and 1 has a “bronze” rating. So the majority of the currently top-played games are playable on Linux.
Though Obviously that doesn’t help you, if the game(s) you want to play aren’t playable on Linux
Yeah every time I say this I always get comments like yours and I appreciate that you’re making a point but it doesn’t really help me.
I see Battlefield 5 isn’t on there, because it isn’t a steam game I get that, but my point isn’t about steam my point is about gaming in general.
Edit: Battlefield 5 is listed as “SILVER”, but reading the comments on ProtonDB it is unplayable in practice