(The “Windows” slices of the pies are entirely made up by Baldur’s Gate 3, which also runs well over Linux)
Linux Gamers - “Sure am stoked that gaming on Linux has gotten so good, finally don’t feel like I need to keep Windows”
Randos - “Wow, such copium! It didnt work for my specific use case! Linux users are so obnoxious!”
If your quote was the title of this post then the “randos” wouldn’t show up. But it’s not. 🤷
Idk man, I get how you could read the title as confrontational, but every pro Linux post has these “randos”. Haters gonna hate. 🤷♂️
What cope. I still run into countless compatibility issues which bars Linux from daily use for me. Stop trying to downplay proton compatibility, it just makes your arguments appear disingenuous.
I would fully switch over to Linux in a heartbeat if there was no compatibility problems.
Even if it had full comparability, you won’t have switched to linux. You don’t need reasons to do it, except your own wish
Some game updates just break proton compatibility.
Which games? I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a game that didn’t run with Proton out of the box.
first, file a report. so devs are aware of your problem.
second, i feel you. i’m in the same situation. if i switch to linux right now, my stream deck will lose features and i probably on’t be able to use my steering wheel anymore. plus i really struggled to install fusion360.
Steamdeck = Linus.
Well… Yes but, the year in gaming circle graph differentiates between steamdeck and Linux, i only know because my pc runs only Linux.
Why are you using Windows for BG3? I’ve been using Pop!_OS and it runs perfectly.
Until your obscure GPU driver said no and spend weeks trying to fix it but nothing work except getting called an idiot on stack overflow
I mostly play old games that struggle even in windows sadly. I’ll probably need a windows machine or VM until I die.
don’t use linux myself, but i’ve heard wine has great backward compatibility with older games.
but you probably tried installing them yourself, so…
Yeah the C&C games don’t run too well in it sadly. Don’t know why someone down voted you, you’re just trying to help :/
The issue has never been that games can’t run on Linux. It has always been a simple question of “will the games I want to play run?” More than ever, that answer is yes, but if your favorite game doesn’t, or if you never want to worry about “will this upcoming (online) game let me play on Linux?” then you use Windows by default.
Like, I love y’all, but the Linux gaming community on Lemmy is kinda insufferable with the straw-man “people think games can’t run on Linux” argument. That’s just not the issue
This has been my concern too. It’s great that we’re seeing some specific cases where Linux benchmarks faster than Windows, but that doesn’t mean a damn thing if the one thing I’m trying to play just full on won’t work.
Telling me that I can just also run Windows is counterproductive. If Windows will do everything I want, and Linux will do only some of what I want, now you’re trying to sell me on increased complexity and difficulties and learning a whole new system, without actually getting rid of the problems that come with running Windows in the first place.
I’ve been 100% Linux for over a year now. If it doesn’t run, I don’t buy it.
I’m waiting for the open razer project to support my mouse before I fully switch. I’d do it myself but I don’t have the time these days.
Kernel Level Anti-Cheat. If you don’t understand that, then you don’t know if Linux is good or bad for “gaming”.
Basically everything you want to play on Linux, that is not supported by the anti-cheat kernel is screwed.
“Steam offers all these game to play on Linux” - yes, but I played them all 20 years ago.
Try playing something like Genshin Impact. You cannot, the anticheat is Windows only. (PS and consoles, it relies on anticheat mech’s from the HW). They don’t offer a Linux version - so you are screwed.
Does it have EAC or Battleeye? You are shit out of luck.
The Linux Desktop is ready for primetime, but not for gaming. You need a windows boot for gaming, unless you are playing Half-Life…
