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(The "Windows" slices of the pies are entirely made up by Baldur's Gate 3, which also runs well over Linux)
Ever since I built my new PC a few months ago, my chart would be completely purple. I mostly play Indie games though, and they seem to have better Linux support
Same here, I only had to run BG3 on Windows (in a VM) for very specific reasons tied to my setup.
65% Linux, 19% VR and 16% Windows on my end, glad I contributed :3
Mine is 30% SteamDeck and 70% Linux 😂
90% Steam Deck over here, and 10% Linux.
Building a machine that does everything is coming to a household near you! The rest of us, well we've been building custom gaming machines for one or two games for a long time.
The tooling is just getting better everyday. I don't think Windows gaming will ever die but I think the experience has gotten bad enough that people have begun seeking alternatives. If this wasn't true I don't think that the SteamDeck would be so successful.
With that being said, I don't tell everyone to try Linux. I do think that Linux is good for gaming but just hard to use for most gamers. I'll probably buy a steam deck OLED in March just to "do my part" even though I have far too many custom machines and not enough time to enjoy playing the games.
I mostly play old games that struggle even in windows sadly. I'll probably need a windows machine or VM until I die.
Until your obscure GPU driver said no and spend weeks trying to fix it but nothing work except getting called an idiot on stack overflow
4% on linux
Sorry but multiboxing with a compatibility layer is pure cancer, for some reason proton just keeps gobbling up resources until the clients eventually become unplayable and need to be restarted.
alt tab doesn't work for switching and also MINIMIZE ON FOCUS LOSS? fuck you linux, absolutely fuck you.
I'm waiting for the open razer project to support my mouse before I fully switch. I'd do it myself but I don't have the time these days.
I've finally decided to make a switch to Fedora, after giving up last time due to almost nothing I needed working.
I still didn't manage to get Unity working, which I unfortunately really need, and for some reason it's also not working in a Boxes VM, but I was really surprised with Steam! Not only every game I tried so far is working great (after solving some initial trouble caused by NVIDIA card), I also managed to just run the games I have pirated directly from the Windows drive, without having to reinstall them, by simply adding the .exw to Steam.
The only issue left is to solve missing cutscenes/videos, being replaced by that "TV color test" image. Has anyone managed to solve it? I've tried installing various codeks, but it didn't help.
The only thing I'm missing is Parsec, since I was pretty used to workong remotely through wake on lab and parsec, but I suppose that's solvable down the line. Oh, and everything being Electron apps, especially since i unfortunately need O365 stack for work. But its not that bad.
So far i love it, and have already set Fedora as my default boot. Only have to switch for Unity, as of now. I'll see how long it will last.
If anyones looking for a new year resolution, go give your favorite distro a try! And if you have an NVIDIA card and even after following a random guide you get stuttering or lagging text in Electron apps, as i did, try the other repository for the drivers, thats what solved it for me.
This is why tell people who ask why I don’t use Linux, “because.”
mmmm call me back when cyberpunk 2077 can hold a stable 30FPS at 1440p on steam deck settings on my laptop's 3070Ti.