If you're not supporting my OS then I'm not giving you my money. Plain and simple.
All of the games I've wanted to play work with Proton through Steam.
Proton is such a big win for Linux, alongside the Steam Deck and SteamOS
Yeah, the quality of Proton has in a way made it harder for me to decide whether to get a game or not. Previously it was no tux no bucks, but now I find myself researching whether a publisher has a history of doing shitty stuff about Linux. Turns out quite a few publishers who would never otherwise have made a Linux port have made a decent effort to keep proton compatibility with updates.
Especially because devs actually have to go out of their way to exclude Linux these days. Proton makes it so damn easy to support Linux. If you don't, it's because you did not even try or you intentionally added some bloat to your software to make it incompatible.
Not only proton, but unless you are rocking custom engine, pretty much all of them support Linux out of the box. It's usually middleware that poses an issue and most importantly developer's inexperience with the OS, which means they can't provide tech support for their product.
Eh maybe some do it on purpose, but I realized over the decades of my life that blatant incompetence is scarily common.
I never found competence to be exceptionally common.
It's not like you'll ever run out of stuff to play on Linux.
At this point, windows-only title that won't work on Linux are overpriced cash grab with multiple layers of intrusive DRM that will try to wring you out for more money for a year before dropping the still unfinished thing off the support line.
Stardew valley works on Linux. I'm not aware of any other games.
There are literally thousands, thanks to Steam and the work on Proton. I recently made the leap from Windows to Linux as my daily driver, for the first time ever, after using Windows on my PCs since 3.1.
Out of the roughly ten games I was playing regularly in Windows when I switched, there isn’t a single one that’s unplayable. The only one I’m still struggling with is Dyson Sphere Program but that’s because they hard coded the E key and I can’t use autohotkey to work around that anymore (I’m a ESDF guy, not WASD). The game itself runs fine.
Stardew Valley
Can't believe there is actually another game on this planet alongside Minecraft Beta 1.7.3
Unpopular opinion:
The reason I started playing on PC is because I want the best experience for each game, and ability to play most of them. If I have to ignore certain games that don't support Linux, I lose that.
Mad respect to those of you that prioritize software freedom and Linux support, but that's not me.
It's certainly unpopular here, but no one is going to bash you for it.
Btw if you do want to get away from windows, but still have a similar look-and-feel AND windows games just work, bazzite rocks.
10 years ago windows was the only fool-proof way. But not anymore.
I ignore certain games that don't run via proton, because those certain games typically dont run because they have invasive and unnecessary DRM or Anticheat thats more malware than anything useful for protecting play.
Which I wouldnt buy or have on my computer on windows, much less linux, anyway. So nothings lost.
No tux = no bucks
I remember playing RE: Village and FF VII Remake on Linux after quitting Windows for good and thinking: "Holy shit, this stuff really works, even with recent games with high end graphics!"
If I can't get it working on Linux I get a refund. For the past two years my Steam year in reviews have showed 100% of my play time was on either Steam Deck or desktop Linux.
Wine-GE + Lutris. I have over 200 pc games working on my Archlinux install.
I envy whatever storage setup you have jesus christ 😅
this man is using the International Space Station´s servers to store his games.
In the age of the Steam Deck and Proton, the Windows API has largely been demoted to a virtual machine that is already implemented on Linux. Given that some 5% of the market play on Linux, game publishers have an incentive to not write their Windows code in such a way that it breaks on Proton.
It's more like "Demoting Windows API from a virtual machine to some .so libraries and a loader executable"
Every game I've wanted to play has worked on Linux so far
Jc141 is easily the best scene(kinda) on linux. It's almost always click and play.
I have had ONE non online competetive game not immediately and easily boot up on my steam deck
Hint: :q!
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