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While Linux has made a lot of progress in terms of being able to run games[0], the article is correct that it is still quite lackluster for a lot of the latest

While Linux has made a lot of progress in terms of being able to run games[0], the article is correct that it is still quite lackluster for a lot of the latest and greatest. In particular, the VR support is terrible according to everything I've read, with only the Index and some models of Vive being supported at all and Steam VR being a bit of a shitshow on Linux. So if you care about VR, it isn't a good option. I don't play many new demanding games at all, but a friend is trying to get me into DCS and is thus far partially successful. DCS is a fiddly enough bitch on Windows, but apparently it's that much worse in Wine. [0] Linux is such a terrible target for games because of its fragmentation and tendency to break library ABIs frequently. Valve tries to deal with those but if it weren't for the hard work of the WINE community re-implementing the Windows ABIs then gaming on Linux would still basically be limited to emulators, tech demos, and Nethack.

ElectricalUnion 5y ago
> Linux is such a terrible target for games because of its fragmentation and tendency to break library ABIs frequently. Linux ABI itself is pretty stable. That unfortunately can't be said of anything that depends on anything not-strictly-kernel, non-strictly-glibc library. > Valve tries to deal with those. Valve attempt to handle those issues is pretty interesting, it's a kinda of "linux standard base" / "python manylinux" hybrid where they strictly freeze portions of the userland. Because of that, you will have some fronzen, kinda buggy years-old libraries, but the resulting binaries works, on several computers, over a reasonably long time, without recompiling anything, most of the time.