Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows
Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever
I would love to swap to Linux if we could get games with kernel level anti cheat to be compatible.
I'd love for those games to be on Linux if they remove the spyware.
I'm gonna be that guy, most of them are in some way or another. The devs literally decided to not bother pressing the button that enables compatibility because they don't feel like it.
Okay, real talk.
I know there's probably 100 videos on this, but I don't have time to watch any of them right now...
How much performance is lost/gained from using Linux to play games via proton?
I'm certain any game with a native Linux version will work great, I'm mostly concerned with the ones that need some kind of emulation layer.
colloquially, I hear "5-10% overhead depending on the game and if you're running mods"
On the other hand, some testing has found that running games on Linux with Proton is actually faster than with Windows on the same hardware, because Windows is such a resource hog.
The hardware in in this test being the Legion Go steamdeck rival.
Which I'm sure is much higher than windows games working on windows. Proton is awesome for old games.
Most stuff works outside of system anti-cheatl level multiplayer and some visual novels that can be tough to setup sometimes.
Switching to linux had me cold turkey league of legends im a healthier happier person now.
the real cold turkey was Riot killing linux support last year. Seems like there wasn't enough linux players at the time for them to walk back that decision.
Funniest thing.: the Mac client also doesn't support Kernel anti cheat, but it still works. Fuck riot, I'm glad I ditched it.
Unfortunately those pesky live service games that have the most player counts are disproportionately represented in that 10%.
They tend to require installing a rootkit on your own computer. I wouldn't buy them even if they did support Linux.
Single player games are where I'm at so this really doesn't affect me
you are a minority in this case
I have a console for those, just never liked them on pc, feels wrong to install them when I have other options for mouse and keyboard play that I would avoid with a controller
Wonder if they can build on top of eBPF? I think Windows is trying to implement it too
The correlation between people playing those games and not giving a fuck about digital privacy is probably huge.
The only game I couldn't get to run on Wine was NOLF 1. Everything works except the music, which relies on DirectPlay / DirectMusic.
Maybe try protontricks. You can add the libraries needed for directmusic to the game that way. Worked for me this way for gothic.
The stereotype is of the haughty Linux user, but fuck me all I ever see in these discussions is Windows users being belittling assholes.
We tend to come off as haughty when Windows users show up demanding help and being insulting while having put in zero work on understanding their own problem.
I've seen so many Windows users come out of nowhere to shit on Linux when gaming comes up. There was the whole thing where a bunch of alpha testers got banned on Ashes of Creation a few weeks ago and the discord just had like half of people in their discord throwing hate around.
Also accusing Linux users of being cheaters... as if game cheats are made for Linux.
Even Starcraft???
100% of games worth playing work on Linux!
Oh, yeah? I have a super niche German adventure game from 2004 that I can't get up and running. But then it also won't work on at least Win7 and up (I tried). I can't even get that running on an XP virtual machine. This game has become my nemesis.
See if you can trick Ross Scott into playing it. :) He has near infinite patience for forcing old games to run, and a skilled network to lean on.
What about an emulator like 86box or so? And which game is it?
I actually enjoy Battlefield 1 + 5 very much, and they killed it with their anticheat shenanigans. I am still salty about this.
Fuck EA.
Where's my hype the time quest? I tried and it was a huge pain in the ass and I couldn't fully get it working.
The only games I've struggled with are those with codecs that are not distributed with Proton. Installing GE-Proton solved it.
99.99% of games on Linux unlocked.
GE-proton what add to proton? Beside codecs
From their readme:
Things it contains that Valve's Proton does not:
I've never seen a harder hard-on than the hard-on Lemmy has for Linux.
More power to you guys, I'm just saying, Linux circlejerking represents like a third of the posts I see when browsing All.
So you are saying that we should do it harder? Acknowledged boss!
I reckon a result of its reputation as an alternative to "mainstream" sites like Reddit, which is also a STEM-oriented gamer-nerd site disproportionately represented by men. So, tons of dudes on here use Linux professionally and are also of a libertarian mindset that is conducive to Linux evangelism on the basis of an ever-encroaching capitalist authoritarianism. edit: Also adding that I'm sure age is a factor in both the decision to leave other social media sites and a particular intolerance for the surveillant, bloated state of consumer PC's at this point.
They're not wrong, Linux is honestly the best route to a decent desktop experience now that Windows is caught in an AI deathloop and the Linux community is expansive enough to support casual users (I don't care about Apple stuff, but the cost would detract from the experience certainly). I made the switch when it got to the point that Windows literally took more work to use on a daily basis because of how hostile it has become to the user.
There are women who are also pro Linux.
I've used it off and on since the early 2000s, but switched full time last year when they were threatening to put the AI stuff in windows.
Also, being queer and the fear of how many companies are bending the knee to fascism I am concerned with privacy.
Totally.
I've been using Windows a long time. I'm actually in IT. Microsoft is definitely going the wrong direction with it. It doesn't bother me too much because I know how to change what I need to change to make it work the way I want.
It does get old though seeing so many Linux posts all the time. Like, I get it. But over-exposure and fanboying could end up driving people away. I just scroll past. It's not a big deal. Just felt like pointing it out.
Meh. Lemmy is a fairly small community of people who know at least enough about computer and software that they're willing to push away from main-stream sites like Reddit. It seems kind of obvious that those same people would also be inclined to push away from Windows.
I wouldn't call it a 'hard-on'. It's just a kind of obvious correlation of people's interests. And no, it's nothing like 1/3 of the posts. It's just that you only think about linux when you're reading one of those posts, and so you only think to mentally tally the posts when you're actually reading one. It's a kind of cognitive bias. You could easily check this by just looking at the first few pages of 'all' right now. There's almost no posts about linux there at all.
Linux people responses will be like: “ive never seen that, works fine on my machine. i’m curious tho what version of Wine, Proton are you using? …. oh? what’s your desktop environment? … oh KDE…? ah must be a Bazzite thing? i’ve never seen that before on Mint with GNOME on my Intel Graphics Card”
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@SilbinaryWolf/115483449807384098
Interesting. I beat hollow knight on my Linux desktop years ago. And I'm currently playing through silksong on my steam deck. And you're right. I've never seen this lol.
I played both HK and silksong on arch, and haven't noticed any glaring problems like that.
I just installed bazzite and hk, no issues.
Skill issue
I played through and 100%'d Silksong entirely on Linux. The only issue I had was that the native Linux version had buggy controller support causing phantom inputs, and didn't activate rumble at all (like the original Hollow Knight).
I normally play everything through Proton-GE by default and didn't realize the game was initially installed as native. Forcing GE installed the Windows version and it was flawless all through the final boss.
(In short, definitely a skill issue)
Wen vr?
That 10%? The games everybody plays.
This may be the first time I haven’t fallen into the subset of “everybody.”
Everything I want to play runs using Linux/proton. It seems like the only things that have trouble are things I’d never consider even installing, let alone running.
I was watching a video about extraction shooters and it mentioned a F2P Chinese one. I wasn't that interested in it, but I wanted to give it a try to see what it was doing differently. It didn't run though, because almost all Chinese games have kernel-level AC. I figure it's not a big loss. I own EfT, and I've got other extraction shooters to play, especially ARC Raiders now.
That was the last time, and the only time in a very long time, that a game I tried to play didn't just work.
You’re the exception
Most people play the same 3 FPS games that don’t run on Linux. They’re probably not the type of people that would use Linux but hey, some might
I guess I'm not everbody then. After writing this message I'll go and play some Witcher 3.
Witcher 3? Never heard of it.
/s
I finally switched to Linux just a few days ago when upgrading my laptop's SSD, and so far I have only opened minecraft to see how it runs - extremely smoothly, even though I could not figure out how to make use the Nvidia GPU. I'd say it runs noticeably better on Linux than it did on Windows.
Unless it has changed recently, I think most distros default to running on the Nvidia GPU all the time: Switching back and forth doesn't always work. (Or at least, that's how my laptop run with Manjaro)
100% of Windows games run on Windows. Just saying.
I've heard that there's some older windows games that don't run in newer versions of Windows but do run in proton
Space Cadet Pinball was removed from Windows, but it comes stock with Bazzite.
Just play it anywhere.
True, but getting us privacy-concious folks to use any version of windows, even the most palatable (Enterprise IOT LTSC, which is impossible for an individual to acquire through official channels) is a hard sell. I'm still only using Win10 IOT LTSC for VR game support, but I'm just biding my time. Already switched all of my other devices off windows.
If only Windows wasn't so ass :(
Even the 16 bit ones? ;)
Not necessarily, steam includes a windows compatibility layer making many windows games playable on Linux and that's how most steam deck games run. On stream deck specifically the battery life and performance is often better under this translation layer than installing windows and running them natively.
Edit: Just skimmed the article, this is exactly what it's about.
Impressive, now tell me what % of the top 20 current concurrent players games run on linux.
Here you go:
Want more?
More?
MOAR?
And personally:
What am I looking at? What are the colors?
Ok, I figured it out after visiting protondb.com
as far as i can tell this only accounts for games on steam, which means massive games like fortnite, valorant, league of legends and genshin impact are excluded. also for some reason apex legends is rated as silver on protondb despite very much not working on linux? so i guess at least one of the silvers in the top 10 chart should be downgraded to not working
So 60% for top 10?
The only game I am not able to make it work on Linux is "The Sims 4". After installing it on Steam, when clicking on Play, it runs the EA app in the background and tries to start the game, but it doesn't load. Any suggestion?
always check protonDB:
https://www.protondb.com/app/1222670
Looks like most people are using GloriousEggroll's version of Proton (ProtonGE) and some are using launch options to disable the EA Launcher.
GE works on Wine at Red Hat and is thus very knowledgeable about windows translations and the stuff he changes about Valves Proton are often merged down the line, its like an unofficial beta release and I've had good a experience with his proton Versions.
That said, to actually get custom Proton Versions I use "ProtonUp-Qt"(available as flatpak): https://davidotek.github.io/protonup-qt/
Which downloads different Proton Versions and manages them for you. You can then set the default for all games in the steam settings, or on a game-by-game basis
“ProtonUp-Qt” looks great, thx. I just reinstalled Bazzite and this looks like the go.
Try the GE version of Proton, it's usually more curring edge.
Mayb this can help: https://www.protondb.com/app/1222670
Playing Hogwarts legacy at the moment, but I also tested ETS 2 and the tenants.
I think this is a higher percentage than Windows 11 if you include 16-bit ones from the 90s and early 2000s. (What was wrong with NTVDM64, anyway?)