Great News 80% of Steam’s Top Games Now Run on Linux(news.itsfoss.com)
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Great News 80% of Steam’s Top Games Now Run on Linux
https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-game-rise-prtondb-dec-21/
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Why include console exclusives? Aren't people trying to compare Windows as a gaming platform to Linux as a gaming platform?
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In case you didn't know about this website: https://www.protondb.com/
58% of the top 100 are "generally playable" with minor issues.
58% of the top 100 are "generally playable" with minor issues.
It's not accurate as a metric. It's missing many popular games, such as Fortnite.
Wow you're right, didn't know that.
"Run on Linux" implies either native or supported in my mind.
According to the article:
> 80% of the top 100 games on Steam now have gold or better ratings [in the Proton DB].
> If you are confused about the various ratings, here’s what it means:
> Native: Game is available on Linux natively
> Platinum: Runs perfectly out of the box
> Gold: Runs perfectly after tweaks
So, not all 80% are either native or supported. Still cool though. I look forward to no longer needing Windows. Options are good.
According to the article:
> 80% of the top 100 games on Steam now have gold or better ratings [in the Proton DB].
> If you are confused about the various ratings, here’s what it means:
> Native: Game is available on Linux natively
> Platinum: Runs perfectly out of the box
> Gold: Runs perfectly after tweaks
So, not all 80% are either native or supported. Still cool though. I look forward to no longer needing Windows. Options are good.
One has to add that proton is actually pretty painless too.
With wine a gold status could mean it only works on that one specific setup, not possible on Debian but just arch based systems when you compile that one specific wine version with these 3 patches. But the game would still crash if you alt+tab out one time to often.
On proton I had a surprisingly well experience so far. Most games that didn't just work for me were unity bullshit either way.
With wine a gold status could mean it only works on that one specific setup, not possible on Debian but just arch based systems when you compile that one specific wine version with these 3 patches. But the game would still crash if you alt+tab out one time to often.
On proton I had a surprisingly well experience so far. Most games that didn't just work for me were unity bullshit either way.
I don't disagree, but it's important context to note that
a) if something is gold in this context, presumably this means that any fixes that need to be applied will be applied by proton, and the process will be opaque as far as the end-user is concerned
b) needing to apply fixes is not exclusively a "get it to play on linux" thing; I have many store-bought windows games that require fixes (often unofficial) in order to actually get them to play on windows.
a) if something is gold in this context, presumably this means that any fixes that need to be applied will be applied by proton, and the process will be opaque as far as the end-user is concerned
b) needing to apply fixes is not exclusively a "get it to play on linux" thing; I have many store-bought windows games that require fixes (often unofficial) in order to actually get them to play on windows.
Interesting how 80% of top 100 games work, 70% of top 100, 60% of top 10 yet people ONLY want to play games that are not yet compatible. Sigh
People won't be asking for games to work that already work. The posting will inherently be biased towards games people are hoping to play that don't work.
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A better metric would be how many of the top 50 games worldwide run on Linux (including console exclusives). That would be a good universal metric that could be used to compare not just compatibility, but also porting efforts.