This meme would be so relatable if I had any friends.

During last gamenight with the friends we decided to play halo infinite. We all had a good laugh that the two on windows were the only ones crashing

Break free of proprietary friends ^^

Well it's getting better, and fast imo. When I started using Linux some 4 years ago I could barely play anything in my library. If the game had online functionality in any way, chances were it didn't run. That has gotten a lot better imo but Proton is still not where it needs to be. But things change and from what I, as a consumer, can see it seems like the biggest problem now are invasive Anti-Cheats rather than anything fundamentally breaking the games.

Edit: but yeah, it sucks when shit ain't working and the small fraction of stuff not working is still a bit much to swallow

Honestly Steam and Proton have solved like 90% or more of this issue, i was in this spot in the past for a long, long time, but Steam has made this work almost seamlessly for a great number of games

And then i got the Steam Deck and this went into overdrive

At this point i feel like Linux is a realistic option for a gamer, qualified of course (anti-cheat tech tends to break things, plus there's a few problematic ones), but we are at the point where you can buy an AAA title and be relatively confident it will run on Linux (check first though)

Haven't run into a game yet that doesn't run on Linux when using Proton. 👌

This seems dated. I'm not saying there is no issues but man has it improved so much.

"ah shucks, Windows Update just initiated a reboot without asking, guess I'm out for the night guys"

Impossible, I've had Linux users swear to me that gaming on Linux is now perfect and even better than on Windows!

Everyone in the comments: "Actually I don't have the same problems so this is wrong"

As someone who was already only mostly playing single player games, the transition from Windows to Linux was so easy. All my games just work. The only multiplayer game I fuck with anymore is Battlebit Remastered, and that works great.

Since my style of learning is "jump in and figure it out as you go" (impulsive idiot), I've been very impressed with how much has just worked.

I've been afraid to recommend my set up to friends though because I don't want to be their troubleshooter.

It's always best to try it well ahead of time even if it's just for having that shader cache setup and ready to go.

Also trying to get trainers to run is a bit of a nightmare. I use steamtinkerlauncher for that and it's hit or miss I'd say.

Is this true anymore with Steams Version of Linux? For the most part shit runs fine on my steam deck

Meh. I definitely had issues getting bg3 working well on Linux.

Eventually I switched to windows and it was a nightmare of different and worse issues.

Back to Linux, found a fix. Sweet.

Yeah give me a minute to install and setup proprietary Nvidia drivers, Retroarch, PCSX2, Lutris, Steam and Wine-staging along with all of the necessary dependencies. Worth it tho

Me playing wow on lutris and it crashing the one time a week as we start a raid boss.

The only things I can't play on linux are games with heavy kernel-injected anti-cheats and racing games (AC and BNG). Everything else "just works". Hell, I even managed to get Overcooked's cross-platform version to work.

There's no shame in dual booting. Moving all your non-gaming stuff away from windows is a big step in the right direction.

I installed KDE Neon on Friday evening and things were going great, everything was testing well, and Saturday game night with the gang went flawlessly, but this morning the VMWare Horizon Linux client spontaneously decided that it didn't want to accept mouse input anymore, so after ten minutes of troubleshooting I gave up and booted back into Windows so that I can be productive today.

A battle lost, but the war is not over yet.

this is exactly me every time i'm showing someone how easy it is nowadays to run games in linux, only for the game that was running perfectly the previous night to throw some random error and crash my system

Wish I could play games on Linux, but for some fucking reason I can't figure out my gaming laptop with Nvidia 1660ti will not work properly with most games. If I ever can afford a new computer I'm probably going with AMD instead tbh.