Even gamers nexus’ Steve today said that they’re about to start doing Linux games performance testing soon. It’s happening, y’all, the year of the Linux desktop is upon us. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

Edit: just wanted to clarify that Steve from GN didn’t precisely say they’re starting to test soon, he said they will start WHEN the steam OS releases and is adopted. Sorry about that.

  • @Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip
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    387 months ago

    I saw a post on bluesky saying Steamdeck can’t be widely adopted because of linux. I asked why is that the case? He says "Linux doesn’t run as many games as windows ". I said “only a few and the anti cheat ones”. He kept arguing. I asked him about nintendo and he goes “It has the games to back it up” and I blocked him lol.

    Millions of games are not enough because its FOMO.

    • GHiLA
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      297 months ago

      Linux doesn’t run as many games as Windows

      I’d argue it runs more due to compatibility breaks. Wine just-werks with a lot of old installers.

      • @thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca
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        67 months ago

        Indeed. I couldn’t get a couple of old 3DO games working on windows 10/11 even though I bought them on Steam.

        Work great on Linux w/ Photon (aka wine).

    • TheLastHero [he/him]
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      217 months ago

      any game that needs to install a rootkit on my computer to play it was never going on my computer anyway. Proton can more or less handle every else on linux at this point. Hardware driver support is getting quite mature too. 2025 is legitimately the year of the linux gaming desktop imo.