Had no major issues with Steam games so far on Linux mint, but I like owning my games, so I buy as much as I can from GOG, and Lutris and Heroic both have not given me exactly easy experiences :L
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Heroic has gone pretty well for me. I've found a few exceptions that are solved by the same trick though. If you're running a game like The Thaumaturge, and it doesn't boot on the GOG version, take a look at SteamDB. SteamDB's entry for the game has a "depot" for VC 2019, VC 2022, and DirectX 2010. If you run winetricks on The Thaumaturge via Heroic and install those three dependencies, it works.
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I've converted all my gaming to linux including vr and couldn't be happier! Even hardware works flawlessly these days with the exception of VR at times. I'm still struggling to get No Man's Sky to work on my quest 3 and linux VR and thats really the only thing I'm missing but it seems close to working just needs more fiddling.
Highly recommend Bazzite for people looking for a linux gaming distribution. It's immutable which can complicate some things but it's mostly plug and play and impossible to ruin due to immutable nature.
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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.
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There are still lots of reasons that stop people from jumping 100% into Linux. Gaming is less and less one of them.
True, but network effects are important to that.
There were huge numbers of people that wouldn't move to Linux because it didn't support all of their games. Now it does, and lots of people are moving.
There are lots of people that won't move to Linux because they have a random bit of hardware that's not supported, or a highly-specific bit of software they need to do their job that only runs on Windows. The manufacturers wouldn't support Linux because not enough people used it. Ah, but now we have all the gamers, so there are quite a lot of people using it.
Each domino that falls encourages the rest. Steam Linux users are more than 3x Steam macOS users, and we're not that far from overtaking it for general desktop usage. In some regions, that's already the case, and while the Windows 10 exodus can move to Linux easily, they'd need to buy new hardware fo use the Mac operating system. Not many companies would question providing Apple support; once Linux has a comparable share, it would be foolish to leave that out of consideration as well.
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While this is awesome we still need to have the same performance on Windows. Yes, some games run better through proton for some reason, but that's the minority. Hopefully, proton will not be needed for new games in the future and we get native builds like CS2.
I have a 3090 and heard nvidia gpus dont do very well for Linux gaming if anyone wants to quell my fears and get me off Windows
I have a 3070 and it runs the majority of games better than windows. The "Nvidia doesnt work good for linux" statement has become dated. Nvidia has become much better about giving support to other platforms, I think it has alot to do with being flexible for the ai market
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