• Shin
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    663 months ago

    Didn’t we also just break 3% last year, or am I mistaken? Either way, awesome news for the FOSS community.

    • @didnt_readit
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      613 months ago

      Yep and it seems to line up with the rise of the Steam Deck and all the discussion around how viable gaming on Linux is these days. I think there were/are a LOT of people that only stick with Windows due to gaming. Hopefully as gaming support continues to improve on Linux more of those people will make the switch.

      • Shin
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        253 months ago

        I don’t even think much when running games anymore. Even DRM-free games I get from Gog I can just click on and run with Wine most of the time. It’s so awesome.

        • mesamune
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          153 months ago

          Sometimes games that won’t work on 10/11 work happily on wine/proton. Fun times.

          • yeehaw
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            73 months ago

            😂 this happened to me but I can’t remember the game.

            Also on Elden ring on windows, any time I exit the game that stupid anticheat window stays there until I force close from task manager.

            When I realized Elden ring ran fine in Linux, I didn’t have this problem. For me, Elden ring legit runs better on Linux than windows…

        • @A_Random_Idiot
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          103 months ago

          Same.

          I only have a handful of games I cant play, and thats due entirely to their shitty choice of DRM… and thats not a big detriment cause that obscene DRM would have kept me away on Windows, anyway.

          • @[email protected]
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            53 months ago

            Same here. The games with rootkit and invasive spyware anti-cheat don’t work, but I avoided those games like the plague on windows already so this just makes it easier for me to avoid. That shit doesn’t work anyway, it just makes people not automatically jump to accusing people of cheating when they get owned…

        • @[email protected]
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          33 months ago

          The only thing still tying me to my piddly spare windows laptop are those damn online games with their accursed anti-cheat softwares…

          • Shin
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            33 months ago

            Why not dual boot? It’s what most in that situation do.

        • @BaroqBard
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          23 months ago

          There’s that and Heroic is doing some excellent work implementing proton and steams stuff into GOG games!

          • Shin
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            23 months ago

            Yeah, but I prefer running it without a launcher. It’s just cool to me I can easily run the games via clickng on the exe or searching it in a runner with very little hastle.

        • @[email protected]
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          13 months ago

          One game that’s really inconsistent about running on Wine is Roblox, which iirc won’t run at all anymore due to the new anti-cheat which deliberately prevents running with Wine.

      • @[email protected]
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        33 months ago

        I used to check winehq for linux compatibility before buying a game. I stopped doing it around 2021 or so. There is no need. dxvk just works.