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I spend my entire day in tmux and vim land in a Linux terminal, but as a gamer wanting to play good games, it’s windows all the way. Gaming on Linux just still
by jtms 6y ago
I spend my entire day in tmux and vim land in a Linux terminal, but as a gamer wanting to play good games, it’s windows all the way. Gaming on Linux just still isn’t there yet.
- krzyk 6y agoIt depends on what you look for, Steam has put a lot of work into consolidating ways to run windows-only games to work on Linux. Aside from that, games like Factorio, Minecraft, Civilization 6, XCOM2, Shadow of Mordor, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided run on Linux just fine.
- abathur 6y agoand csgo :)
- uep 6y agoIf you have a GPU that supports Vulkan these days, and you play games on Steam, it is very likely that you will be able to play games even without native Linux support. I check before I purchase any games, but it has become very unusual when I encounter a Steam game that I cannot play. https://www.protondb.com/ https://www.protondb.com/ Gold or better generally just work. The current ratings for the top 1000 games: Top Thousand Unrated:61 Borked:6% Bronze+:64% Silver+:59% Gold+:49% Platinum:19% Native:25%
- jtms 6y agothat's really cool - my beefy gaming rig dual boots ubuntu so ill check it out!
- feanaro 6y agoThat's cool, but I don't want to use Windows for games. Games that don't work on Linux (at least through Proton) simply won't get played.
- skohan 6y agoLinux is there, it's just a matter of developer support.