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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I'm not going to throw doubt on the 90% number. Statistics are made up and generally don't mean anything. "90% of games" .... In what context? Games on steam? Games ever made? I don't think I'm going to be playing sierra titles from the 90s.... What about Flash based games that used to run in a browser? Do they count?

I don't know and it doesn't matter.

The only thing I want to say is that the "10%" that don't work are usually pretty popular.

I'd like to see this metric based on average player counts. What percentage of gamers, playing games right now, could play on Linux.

IMO, that would give a much more relevant indication of how viable it is for most gamers to switch to Linux.

I'm still using Windows 10 and no, I didn't buy their extended bullshit. I don't even run the latest version of Windows 10. I also have an update server setup so I don't usually get updates often because I need to go approve them. But I also work in IT and I've seen every social engineering attack type that's been used since the 90s and I know when to not click on something. I haven't needed an anti virus on my personal system in 20 years.

To say I'm not worried about it is an understatement.

[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If you open it, it mentions the data is from protondb. Which is a database of steam games

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

And? How does this indicate the daily active player counts for the games supported and not supported?

[–] mudkip@lemdro.id 1 points 1 day ago

Half of steam is just hentai or shovelware games anyway

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Wouldn't you be playing Sierra games from the 90s in ScummVM whether you were on Linux or Windows anyway?

[–] tjsauce@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

"Alexander pulls out his bootable USB"

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Idk, I've never tried to run 30 year old games on modern systems.

I'm just not that nostalgic.

[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’m still using Windows 10 and no, I didn’t buy their extended bullshit. I don’t even run the latest version of Windows 10. I also have an update server setup so I don’t usually get updates often because I need to go approve them. But I also work in IT and I’ve seen every social engineering attack type that’s been used since the 90s and I know when to not click on something. I haven’t needed an anti virus on my personal system in 20 years.

To say I’m not worried about it is an understatement.

I don't think anybody cares you're proud to use Windows

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago

Neat.

Thank you for your unsolicited opinion.

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The only thing I want to say is that the “10%” that don’t work are usually pretty popular.

Yeah, like I'm glad Linux support is increasing among games, but my main daily driver game (Genshin) still doesn't support it 🤷 And I don't think Hoyoverse will be spending work on Linux support when they are raking in so much cash from their millions of players. From what I can see Linux usage hovers around 0.3% in China, and that's Hoyo's main market.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You should be able to run the android version with waydroid, thought i am not sure how the expirience may be, the only hoyoverse game i ever played is ZZZ and i play it only on mobile (also, it has the nice "feature" of heating my hands in the cold morning)

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I'm playing with mouse and keyboard, so not sure that's possible with the Android version.

I saw a Linux Genshin launcher on github a while ago, but iirc it carries some ban risk that I don't want to expose my account to.