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aduwah parent
Can't play a lot of mainstream games on Linux is the issue
rubyn00bie
You’d be surprised how many games you can. It’s a pretty common misconception at this point. The only things that you can’t are some highly competitive multiplayer games like League of Legends or iRacing. I haven’t had a game not work in years, just smash the install button on steam and be done with it. Even a large amount of MMOs just work. I play SWTOR and even have StarParse (stats overlay working perfectly).

And if enough people move to Linux even those holdouts will eventually have to support it. The Steam deck has been the gateway drug to Linux for the masses, and I’m stoked for it. Moving to Linux for my desktop gaming machine was the single best decision I made 5 years ago, and I haven’t used Windows since. It’s more stable than Windows ever was, and I also don’t have an errant update break a game, the system, or cause a reboot at the worst possible time.

SirMaster
And those are the only types of games I play... So for me it feels like barely anything I want to play works on Linux.

I play Battlefield 2042, Call of Duty Warzone, Apex Legends, PUBG, Rainbow 6 Siege, and Fortnite, and none of these seem to work on Linux.

The only games I regularly play that work on Linux are DotA 2 and CS2, but I would also prefer using faceit for CS2 as there are way too many cheaters without it, and faceit does not work on Linux.

rubyn00bie
I’m definitely not saying there aren’t loads of people who will have problems because of it— the games you listed are all popular with millions upon millions of people. I used to play League exclusively. With that said, there are likely that many who don’t play those competitive multiplayer games who could absolutely enjoy playing games on Linux with zero effort and have a better experience doing it. I gave up playing League for Linux, and I don’t regret that. I’ll never be good enough at it to really enjoy it.

My point is, more or less, if someone mostly plays solo games, or games that will never have professional players (because there won’t be enough money to pay someone to be a professional)—- Linux slaps. Use Linux. It’s free. It’s great. It’s stable it works.

Is it for literally everyone? No. But it is probably for a lot more people than realize it.

Additionally, if the market becomes big enough, those games that don’t work—- will be forced to. Money talks.

SirMaster
Thanks, yeah I didn't mean to take anything away from Linux and how well it can do for many in this regard.
aduwah OP
It still limits the selection, especially, if someone is into competitive games which often have anticheat sitting on the kernel. Which is crap, but it is how it is
xtracto
Can't play a lot of mainstream games in old windows computers also. Which what this website is about.

So what?

aduwah OP
League is mentioned further above. That's 131 million players right there. It runs on a crap box too.

It is a fact that having an old PC AND using Linux further limits the options compared to using an old box with a windows with extended support.

I think one of the main issues with the Linux world is that people pretend that it is easy to get on the bandwagon. "The is xyz distro that makes it really simple and it is 90% the same". Well that's a lot of bull. It results in people believing you and then silently running away never to come back again.

I work with linux and mac for about 15 years and I will definitely not give up my gaming PC with windows 10 because I would lose access to some games I am playing plus there is a performance hit that would bug me to no end (which would end up putting me in a optimization loop where I spend more time tuning the PC than actually playing).

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