you really showed them
- Actually, yeah, because selling copies is all they care about. And the fact that Epic decided to help get EAC running via Proton back in 2022 shows, that Valve's endeavor does have impact.
- This is the brain of a CUM-sumer.

All of the games I've wanted to play work with Proton through Steam.

Proton is such a big win for Linux, alongside the Steam Deck and SteamOS
- Yeah, the quality of Proton has in a way made it harder for me to decide whether to get a game or not. Previously it was no tux no bucks, but now I find myself researching whether a publisher has a history of doing shitty stuff about Linux. Turns out quite a few publishers who would never otherwise have made a Linux port have made a decent effort to keep proton compatibility with updates.
I will soon have to confront the brain tumor that I surely have, which makes me play League, as they are going to roll out Vanguard anticheat. I sorely wish there was an alternative with similar vibes, DotA is too sweaty for me and not as fun mechanically.

Especially because devs actually have to go out of their way to exclude Linux these days. Proton makes it so damn easy to support Linux. If you don't, it's because you did not even try or you intentionally added some bloat to your software to make it incompatible.

Not only proton, but unless you are rocking custom engine, pretty much all of them support Linux out of the box. It's usually middleware that poses an issue and most importantly developer's inexperience with the OS, which means they can't provide tech support for their product.
Eh maybe some do it on purpose, but I realized over the decades of my life that blatant incompetence is scarily common.
- I never found competence to be exceptionally common.

It's not like you'll ever run out of stuff to play on Linux.

But Cod 27 has a new lootbox system!
- Yeah but it is basically a shameless rip off of Xonotic’s one.

At this point, windows-only title that won't work on Linux are overpriced cash grab with multiple layers of intrusive DRM that will try to wring you out for more money for a year before dropping the still unfinished thing off the support line.

https://protondb.com
There are literally thousands, thanks to Steam and the work on Proton. I recently made the leap from Windows to Linux as my daily driver, for the first time ever, after using Windows on my PCs since 3.1.
Out of the roughly ten games I was playing regularly in Windows when I switched, there isn’t a single one that’s unplayable. The only one I’m still struggling with is Dyson Sphere Program but that’s because they hard coded the E key and I can’t use autohotkey to work around that anymore (I’m a ESDF guy, not WASD). The game itself runs fine.
Stardew Valley
Can't believe there is actually another game on this planet alongside Minecraft Beta 1.7.3
- You misspelt the open source Infiniminer that Minecraft is based off of
Portal 1 and 2, Minecraft: Java edition, The Witcher 3 (with Proton GE), Hyperbolica, Subnautica (with Proton), Half Life, Geometry Dash, Terraria, Spore, Space Engine, The Sims 4.
Have you not used the internet for the past 5 years or is it a troll?
- psst they mean they don't play anything else

Unpopular opinion:

The reason I started playing on PC is because I want the best experience for each game, and ability to play most of them. If I have to ignore certain games that don't support Linux, I lose that.

Mad respect to those of you that prioritize software freedom and Linux support, but that's not me.

It's certainly unpopular here, but no one is going to bash you for it.
Btw if you do want to get away from windows, but still have a similar look-and-feel AND windows games just work, bazzite rocks.
10 years ago windows was the only fool-proof way. But not anymore.
https://bazzite.gg/
- This is really cool, thanks for sharing.
- That's awesome. Yeah, I'm currently on an NVIDIA prebuilt PC that was gifted by a friend, but my next build will definitely have an AMD GPU.
I ignore certain games that don't run via proton, because those certain games typically dont run because they have invasive and unnecessary DRM or Anticheat thats more malware than anything useful for protecting play.
Which I wouldnt buy or have on my computer on windows, much less linux, anyway. So nothings lost.

No tux = no bucks

I remember playing RE: Village and FF VII Remake on Linux after quitting Windows for good and thinking: "Holy shit, this stuff really works, even with recent games with high end graphics!"

Yeah, recent games work well, but older games are still a problem. I still can't get X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter or Freedom Force to load.
- Old games are an issue on Windows too. Support for whatever they were using dies and then they get left behind. That's sadly just how it works.
- Not even in a VM?

Isn’t it so nice when you think “I would like to edit an image on this computer” so you simply download an image editor and edit the image.
Best part of FOSS, the software is just there waiting for you to use it. Which sounds like a stupid statement to make, but proprietary software only allows you to use it after you have jumped through any number of meaningless hoops.
They don’t even give you any fish for jumping through the hoops either, which every time I tell that to a dolphin they just start laughing at me like I am a fool.

If I can't get it working on Linux I get a refund. For the past two years my Steam year in reviews have showed 100% of my play time was on either Steam Deck or desktop Linux.

Been on linux for many years now.
Ironically I've had more issues running native games than windowss via proton games (but proton is there to run the windows version with zero issues lol)
- Just one or two, and it's been quite a while. One of them, I don't remember which, it was because of some anti cheat that caused the issue.

Me casually playing all Foss games

cdda goes brrr

Wine-GE + Lutris. I have over 200 pc games working on my Archlinux install.

I envy whatever storage setup you have jesus christ 😅
- this man is using the International Space Station´s servers to store his games.
- A few cheap hard drives. I spent about $150 for a 4tb, an internal 2tb, and an external 2tb hard drive. Then a couple of tb of SSD for speed.

In the age of the Steam Deck and Proton, the Windows API has largely been demoted to a virtual machine that is already implemented on Linux. Given that some 5% of the market play on Linux, game publishers have an incentive to not write their Windows code in such a way that it breaks on Proton.

It's more like "Demoting Windows API from a virtual machine to some .so libraries and a loader executable"

Every game I've wanted to play has worked on Linux so far

Pretty much why i switched back to Steam from GOG

Heroic game launcher is a good linux client for gog and epic games
- And Amazon games

I have had ONE non online competetive game not immediately and easily boot up on my steam deck

Jc141 is easily the best scene(kinda) on linux. It's almost always click and play.

VFIO

Wine is on the rescue...

I think this is more about games that won’t function even in Wine due to anticheat issues (See: League of Legends, Destiny 2, Valorant, etc.).
- League of Legends, Destiny 2, Valorant
  ... and nothing of value was lost.
- If a game has a such intrusive anticheat, I wouldn't even play them natively. (I need a Windows install, for development reasons)

That's what I'm doing nowadays.
Except for Sniper Elite (version 1), which I paid for on Steam, because I felt like I owed something.
Thinking about it now, I should have bought the GoG version.

In the end I'll only play some ancient minecraft version anyways.

Chad.

Imagine playing games

I do but I don't get the time
I am a reallllllllly good at rocket league and I am doing an aerial-behind-the-goal-post rebounce shot. Glorious. Thank you.

(Kramer enters)

Kramer: Hey.

Jerry: Well ... you want something to play, don't you?

Kramer: Ahh, no, no, no. You got me all wrong buddy. I am loving this no Windows Gaming. You know what I discovered? I really like depriving myself of things. It's fun. Very monastic.

dual boot godhood

windows: games

linux: work/everything else

Dualboot works well for people especially if they play games like Valorant and LoL which has rootkit anticheat.
- yep, and to avoid procrastinating, I only install game related stuff on windows, and only install work related on linux

Enjoy your Tux Racer, mate.

They see me rolling 🐧 🏎️

Something a sweet baby inc fan would do. Stop using obsolete trash stick to windows

How is GNU/Linux obsolete to Windows of all things?

I'd rather have fun and play the game

Me too. And running Windows is no fun.
- But M$ likes to play games with you!
- mmmm yeah.
  Say that after having to scour the internet to fix issues no one encountered before because the game doesn't have Linux support. Not everyone has a offstream mentality of only enjoying obscure games dude.