Comment by pjerem
3 months ago
Except for games with anti cheats, can you quote from your head three games the last 10-15 years that aren’t running perfectly on Linux ?
Because from my ~1 500 titles steam library, I can think of one game that I had issues with. And even this particular game (which is Tomb Raider 2013, btw) worked perfectly fine after a little hack. And ironically the "hack" was checking a checkbox in Steam to force using the Windows version of the game instead of the official Linux port.
Overwatch, Guild Wars 2, Valorant.
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Oh right. ‘Except for games with anti cheats’ - so like, at least half the market lol, and more than 90% of games by game time.
Do you have anything more tangible than "lol"? Looking at the most played steam charts, there is about 10% that has anticheat that does not work on linux.
https://store.steampowered.com/charts/mostplayed
From the top 100 most played Steam games I count 26 (including 5 of the top 10) which are unplayable on Steam Deck for one reason or another.
But not all popular games are available on Steam, Fortnite or Rocket League are examples.
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That's like complaining that your PlayStation games don't work on your Xbox.
Yes, here are 3 PC games which don't run at all on Linux:
Halo Wars 2
Crackdown 3
Gears of War 4
The reason is that these are UWP-only games which are only available through the Microsoft store. Which means they will likely never run on Linux.
Wine has some preliminary support for UWP software, never say never.