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"All games" type of lists aren't necessarily very useful, considering the amount of shovelware that exists. ProtonDB's Dashboard visualizes the data they have. You can change the category to, for example, "Top 10" or "Top 1000" games measured by peak concurrent players. Out of the Top 10 games, 60% gets a silver or better rating, while out of the Top 1000, 89% gets silver or better.
Is 89% of the top 1000 not good enough to just call it 90% of games?
I guess I just wanted to add a couple data points to the discussion. One is that even though the article is about "all games", it so happens that "top 1000 games" (measured in some way) happen to share the same number. And I didn't want to round it because that would have been a reporting error.
The other point being that out of the "top 10 games" (measured in some way), only 6 are playable on Linux. What I didn't say is that one of the other 4 games cannot be played at all. Those are not numbers I want to see. I want all top 10 games to be playable.
That's fair. Honestly, the only games in my experience that don't run on Linux have been artificially crippled with anticheat; I even play some old ones that don't even run on windows anymore 😂