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Windows Games’ Compatibility on Linux Is at an All-Time High (boilingsteam.com)
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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

No. The most played games on steam are multiplayer games that use some sort of anti cheat. Those anti cheats often break linux compatibility when the game or anticheat itself gets updated. So going by number of games you are mostly right, but going by player counts there are often massive setbacks that either dont get fixed at all or only very slowly. Apex Legends and The Finals are prime examples of this flip flopping between working and broken.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 4 points 3 days ago

The most played games on steam are multiplayer games that use some sort of anti cheat.

However, lot of the most played Steam games are well supported and never have an issue with anti cheat whatsoever: https://steamdb.info/ such as Counter Strike 2 and Dota 2 (2 most played games). There are also lot of single player games as the most played games. Therefore this is a mixed bag.

Those anti cheats often break linux compatibility when the game or anticheat itself gets updated.

They not break often Linux compatibility when game or anticheat is updated. That's false statement. There are games, when it happens. But that is not "often". I play games with Anticheat on Linux and they do not break, such as Marvel Rivals and previously Overwatch and Splitgate too (besides Valves own games, but that is self explanatory). This never happened. So the "often" part is misleading here.