Are there hardcore gamers there or is it mostly for coders?
Check out the steam hardware survey: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
1.47% of steam users
Does that include Steam Deck users? Steam OS is based on Linux, but I don’t see it listed on the hardware survey under the Linux category.
It’s probably counted as “Arch Linux” since it’s what the Steam OS is based on.
It’s broken out as its own OS:
SteamOS Holo is the one used on Deck.
I’ve been gaming on Linux since Proton first launched. It was good back then, and at this point I can play just about everything in my Steam library (nearly 1000 games). From indies to racing sims to triple a games. It’s great.
Anti-cheat is still hit or miss, but I don’t really play any multiplayer games, so that doesn’t affect me luckily.
I fully switched to Linux ~3 years ago and at the beginning I was worrying about compatibility, but nowadays I don’t really have to think about it anymore. I play AA games almost daily with both Steam and Heroic. Like others have mentioned, there are some games that doesn’t work because of anti-cheats, but I think there are only a handful of those anymore.
@s804 consider subbing to /m/linux_gaming
I do a bit of coding but I mostly use my pc to game tbh hahaha, Deep rock Galactic is what I’m obsessed with right now
Oh yes, there are gamers. I play Apex, Titanfall 2, Hunt Showdown. Sometimes Overwatch.
Very few games have not worked at all. R6Siege is a popular stickler that still doesn’t work (even though it could if the devs let it, it starts up and runs training just fine).
Valve has certainly given linux a boost with the SteamDeck and all the work they’ve funded to make it a viable gaming platform. I just hope they release SteamOS for all platforms soon, maybe we’ll see an uptick in PC pre-builds with SteamOS as an option instead of just Windows.
I have been gaming on Linux since 2017, and it is super super viable now. Did you know that over 70% of the top 1000 games on Steam are playable on Linux?
I completely switched to Linux in 2015. I’d definitely call myself a gamer. I don’t buy AAA games at release too often, but I sometimes do. I play games for several hours a week. So yeah, probably that makes me a gamer. Nowadays gaming on Linux works great 80-90% of the time. Proton on Steam has massively improved the experience. The only stuff that still regularly causes problems are anti-cheat systems for some multiplayer games. Otherwise gaming on Linux feels almost the same as on Windows.
Seems pretty great to me. Yes, it is and will probably always be at least a bit worse than on windows, but definitely not enough to actually use windows. I’m really happy with the way it’s going. The enjoyment linux brings for me FAR outweighs the cons. That is not gonna be the case for everyone and that’s fine too.
the only reason I have windows on my desktop is because of valorant anticheat
btw how do you change your profile pic?
I recommend using an AMD CPU and GPU, but otherwise you can just assume a game works and it will most of the time. If it doesn’t, there might be some quick fixes, and if not then it’s an unlucky one.
See ProtonDB.
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Linux is a great choice for gaming!
While there may be some anti cheat games it cant run (at the moment), I’ve heard that some games can run even better on Linux than on Windows!
Us retrogamers are gamers too, and there’s a ton of great emulators on Linux.
Thanks to Valve and Proton gaming on Linux is already pretty viable and it’s getting better all the time. I am very happy with how compatible Steam Deck is and what’s funnier sometimes stuff that doesn’t work on newer Windows versions works perfectly on a Deck. Battle.net Launcher installed as a non-Steam app and set to run with Proton allowing me to install and play Diablo IV just like I would on my PC just blew my mind.
Never thought of installing the launcher and setting it to run with Proton. Do you know if it’s possible to play Fortnite on the deck using this method?
