80% of Steam's top 100 games now work on Linux
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Proton has made enormous strides toward game compatibility through advances in related technologies like DXVK, which enable DirectX 9, 10, and 11 games to run through the Vulkan API.
  • aks
    10•2 years ago

    We’re getting there. Ditched windows 6 months ago, havent felt the need to go back.

    Unfortunately Apex Legends is my guilty pleasure and that doesnt have the anticheat support yet… Maybe one day.

  • @SrEstegosaurio@lemmy.ml
    9•2 years ago

    As a person who really enjoys gaming on Linux I like this notice. But I dislike the fact that some companys are ditching Linux support “because proton is a thing”

    • aks
      7•2 years ago

      You win some you lose some. I too want native support but proton is there to help close the gap, I hope.

      Edit: Splitgate has native build even they really didn’t “need” to make one, it’s a great game and i play it pretty much daily.

      • @drspod@lemmy.ml
        6•2 years ago

        The larger the market share that linux collects among gamers, the more incentive there is for developers to make native Linux builds of their games, particularly if they gain performance and stability in doing so.

        This is definitely a very good first step in that direction and I applaud Valve for their efforts.

    • @Windows97@lemmygrad.ml
      4•2 years ago

      I agree but fwiw proton can be better than a lot of simpler ports. I remember the binding of isaac had a native port but it ran terribly and I just stopped playing because I assumed either something was wrong with the game or it was something with linux and I couldn’t figure out which. Apparently most people just played in proton because it ran great. When the released the latest DLC they dropped linux support but it still runs better than ever on proton.

  • @Akimoto@lemmy.ml
    2•2 years ago

    This is definitely good news! But when I tried some games on Linux, they simply doesn’t run as smoothly compared to Windows on same hardware. Some even required fiddling :(

    • pluOP
      5•2 years ago

      I had the opposite experience. Games that worked only after shady DLL replacements and third party mods, and barely at that, worked at one click on GNU/Linux for me.

      • @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
        2•2 years ago

        I will interject for a moment to say that what you are referring to as GNU/Linux, is now GNU/Steam/Linux. Steam is an integral part of Linux that allows games and other non native applications to be ran natively without virtualisation.