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PC Gamer: "I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop" (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 14 hours ago by mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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[–] TrumpetX@programming.dev 7 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I see you tried particularly hard: did you actually select the proton runtime for the "random" game you selected? I've quite literally have ZERO games in my library that have not played on linux. It's not a fully complete or random sampling, but I've gotten everything to work, but you do have to do the bare f-ing minimum step of turning it on.

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 7 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I tried three. My point is that people are talking more about Linux as a viable desktop. I despise windows as much as the next person and I really want people to move to Linux.

Many people stick with windows because of gaming but gaming on Linux has to be consistently at least as good and easy as windows. It’s all well and good saying “edit this file, select the right runtime”, but that’s not good enough IMHO.

Installing steam was either download the DEB file (and then run a shell command) or run a bunch of shell commands to add a key and a repo and to install the program. That’s not an attractive picture for non technical users.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

That’s not an attractive picture for non technical users.

Agreed. Let's not send non-technical gamers to Debian.

Gaming and stability are still often at odds.

[–] TrumpetX@programming.dev 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

But downloading deb files is how you install things on Ubuntu. Just like app files on Mac and exe on Windows. Like, any user needs to do the absolute bare minimum and understand the os they're using.

If the requirement is that Linux needs to run exe fines just like windows, then that's not reasonable and the user should totally just continue to use windows. They deserve the ads.

But if you read the 1/4 page install instructions for steam and Linux, follow the directions, then your things will run just fine. THAT is what people mean when they say Linux works great for users.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 points 12 hours ago

No, the Steam deb is special because it's not in the normal apt repos, which is true for both Ubuntu and Debian. And I can believe that Debian has issues with an installer file that was probably made for Ubuntu in the first place. But downloading random installer files is indeed the standard way to install applications on Windows.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 13 hours ago

No average user is going to do that. If it doesn’t just work it doesn’t work to them.