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90 percent of all Windows games now also run under Linux. (German) (www.derstandard.at)
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cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/47925046

90 Prozent aller Windows-Spiele laufen mittlerweile auch unter Linux

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[–] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

"All games" type of lists aren't necessarily very useful, considering the amount of shovelware that exists. ProtonDB's Dashboard visualizes the data they have. You can change the category to, for example, "Top 10" or "Top 1000" games measured by peak concurrent players. Out of the Top 10 games, 60% gets a silver or better rating, while out of the Top 1000, 89% gets silver or better.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Is 89% of the top 1000 not good enough to just call it 90% of games?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not the one you replied to, but I would like to say that you make a solid point, it is good enough to say 90% of games.

    Buuuut I would prefer being told 89% of top 1000 instead.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I guess I just wanted to add a couple data points to the discussion. One is that even though the article is about "all games", it so happens that "top 1000 games" (measured in some way) happen to share the same number. And I didn't want to round it because that would have been a reporting error.

    The other point being that out of the "top 10 games" (measured in some way), only 6 are playable on Linux. What I didn't say is that one of the other 4 games cannot be played at all. Those are not numbers I want to see. I want all top 10 games to be playable.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    That's fair. Honestly, the only games in my experience that don't run on Linux have been artificially crippled with anticheat; I even play some old ones that don't even run on windows anymore 😂

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    • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    all windows games?

    Or all ostensibly windows-only Steam games?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They are basing it on this article in which they monitor ProtonDB.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    So probably just steam games then.

    I’m curious if they count

    • multi-platform games which would show as “native” on protondb
    • native games that only actually work by using the windows version with Proton
    • the small number of games that only work on Linux but not windows
    • non-steam games added to the steam launcher
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    • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Far more than 90% of the Steam games I own run on Linux.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I even play a game that doesnt have native modding support and I just run the community mod patcher .bat using wine, and then the game run like normal through Steam with 80+ mods. Its crazy the shit you can get away with by using Wine and Proton.

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    [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    10+ years on Linux, absolutely worth it once you get the hang of it. Although it takes some time.

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