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[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Okay, but how far back does this go? It can’t really be that all games in existence that ran on Windows is being counted. Is it?

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When you go far enough back less games work on windows then Linux just because you need emulation and compatibility software anyways for both of them.

And they tend to be better support on Linux.

Which is always a fun time.

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[–] dil@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The thing is I swapped, whenever I start using something and I dont want it to become popular because everything somehow gets ruined when it gets popular, it ends up getting popular. Im usually a late "early" adopter.

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[–] PurpleClouds@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

A bit sceptical of this number. Most popular games have some form of anti cheat which the game not run on Linux. Some other games sometimes have weird bugs that do not occur on windows. - source: I am on Linux 😩

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[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I am immediately skeptical of the 90% claim. There are a lot of Windows games, going back decades! Not even 90% of those work on Windows, let alone Linux!

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[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

Not all games are created equally.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

I can't wait to be banned for playing online from linux

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