Comment by Nextgrid
2 years ago
Getting games to run on Linux often requires tinkering and the people who like to partake in this stuff and have the skill for likely run one of those “hardcore” distros like Arch.
Those who don’t want to tinker and stick to already supported games would probably just run SteamOS to begin with (or a proprietary OS).
This hasn't been true for a while now. Many games have Linux builds, and for those that don't, Steam Proton works incredibly smoothly, and is integrated with the most popular game launcher, Steam. For the most part all you have to do to play games on linux now is click the checkbox to opt into Proton, and then click play.
The biggest remaining issue is anticheats for some competitive games
Somewhat recently Apex Legends got Linux support for easy anti-cheat and it works well.
Hopefully it'll start a trend!