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> Almost all games via Steam (Proton) work flawlessly aside from some Ring-0/anticheat stuff. Most apps work great with Wine. If you're not using exotic hardwar
by wilsonnb3 2y ago
> Almost all games via Steam (Proton) work flawlessly aside from some Ring-0/anticheat stuff. Most apps work great with Wine. If you're not using exotic hardware the drivers are rock-solid for almost all use-cases.
This has been one of the problems with Linux on the desktop since the beginning - 90% isn’t good enough, the last 10% matters.
Obviously the kernel and portions of the user space are good enough, hence the success of ChromeOS and Android, and all of the problems are surmountable via throwing money at development like Valve is doing with gaming.
As it stands you can’t recommend Linux to most people without an asterisk beside it and it will never grow to be a real competitor until that is fixed.
- dangus 2y agoHonestly, it is good enough. The Steam Deck is a runaway success, making it essentially a fourth game console platform, which is motivating mainstream developers to ensure their games work on the Steam Deck. At worst you might boot Windows on a self-contained external drive to play e-sports games, but then you can use Linux as the daily driver.
- blurbleblurble 2y ago> As it stands you can’t recommend Linux to most people without an asterisk beside it and it will never grow to be a real competitor until that is fixed. There are a lot of "most people" who use linux with zero trouble, without even necessarily realizing it, because their family members have set them up on linux. Yes some hard core gamers might not be a fit for linux but these are not "most people". "Most people" just need the browser.
- eYrKEC2 2y agoDual boot Linux and windows isn't a big deal to me. Doing it for 10 years. Only boot into windows for some games.