Why are you being so hostile? How have I been talking out of my ass? I feel I've provided a wealth of context here about my experiences over the years and how I came to this conclusion.
In fact, I think my experience is representative of many people's perception of Linux support for games.
Thanks, I appreciate your insights! I wonder how many people like me are simply looking at publisher notes and under the impression Linux isn't sorted. I'm genuinely impressed by the overwhelming feedback that it's simply good, and I'm excited to try it.
I couldn't find a way to get a breakdown of this, but browsing Stream's Linux compatible list showed just a handful of games I own (Portal 2, Dying Light, Terraria), and spot checking my ±20 favorites resulted in just one compatible title (Cities: Skylines). So I ballparked it at <10%.
I've since learned from this thread that this information doesn't accurately reflect Linux support, though.
If you take an article title directly from a local newspaper and post it verbatim on World News, nobody will know what the fuck it's about and regardless of its content, it won't see the light of day. It's important that the article title is relevant to the audience.
I had just looked at the publisher's system requirements on Steam, since my experience with Wine from over a decade ago was a dead end. I've learned a lot from this thread, though, and it seems things have improved dramatically.
I looked up my favorites, based on my experience in the past with unsupported games. Long ago, I tried using Wine, way back before Steam even had a native Linux client. I managed to get Steam to run through Wine but never succeeded in getting any game to run beyond a loading screen. That was ages ago, though.
I've never tried Proton, but I've gone down a rabbit hole of trying to use Wine for running games a few years back. I'll look into Proton, thanks for the suggestion.
So honestly, which percentage of your game collection runs on Linux? Because I've looked into doing this just a few months ago, and unless the industry had some kind of mass exodus, less than 10% of my games run on Linux, and that's a generous estimate.
Not defending Windows or anything, this is just my experience.
Same. My partner and I have heard so much about this that we have over several months randomly brought up topics that are absurd and foreign to us.
We do it like this: while preparing dinner or so, one of us scribbles a word on a post-it note and we engage on it as though we're making plans or looking to buy something. We have phones, Google Home speakers and Nest devices nearby.
There are a few challenges:
Make sure the topic didn't come up from an internet interaction you already had.
Don't, under any circumstances, search the internet about any of those topics.
Simply remember that you're running this experiment. We keep track of topics we've raised through handwritten notes.
I feel that ordinary people are terrible at running these experiments because it's honestly really difficult to be impartial and evaluate the results with statistical significance. As soon as you encounter one match, the pattern matching part of your brain will scream "told you so!" even if the success rate is 1%.
And guess what? Literally none of the topics appear as targeted ads for either of us.
They also have a dominant position in the global supply chain for raw materials like cobalt and lithium. Good luck developing that EV industry in the US.
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