EventFrontier
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
cm0002@lemmings.world to Linux Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever

www.tomshardware.com

external-link
message-square
27
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • [email protected]
379
external-link

Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever

www.tomshardware.com

cm0002@lemmings.world to Linux Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
message-square
27
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • [email protected]
The number continues to grow, but growth seems to be slowing.
  • Honytawk@feddit.nl
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    22 hours ago

    Currently on Steam:

    19338 games are compatible with Linux and SteamOS

    While there are 145462 games on Steam

    Which only translates to 13,3% of games on Steam being compatible with Linux.

    It is better than before, but where the fuck do they get 90% from?

    • eltoukan@jlai.lu
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      edit-2
      11 hours ago

      the first paragraph has a link to a protondb dashboard:

      https://www.protondb.com/dashboard

      pretty cool visualisation, though it’s not obvious where they get the 90% for me either. But for example if you take the Top 1000 games, 89% of them either have a plat, gold or silver medal, which sounds quite equivalent to “works on Linux”. There is an “all steam games” option, but the issue is that most games haven’t had any feedback from anyone on protondb

      edit: the stat comes from the second link https://boilingsteam.com/windows-games-compatibility-on-linux-is-at-a-all-time-high/ which uses as a sample all of the steam games rated on protondb

    • julysfire@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      22 hours ago

      Iirc correctly, those are just the Linux native ones. A game doesn’t have to be native to play just fine on Linux though.

Linux Gaming@lemmy.world

linux_gaming@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

Discussions and news about gaming on the GNU/Linux family of operating systems (including the Steam Deck). Potentially a $HOME away from home for disgruntled /r/linux_gaming denizens of the redditarian demesne.

This page can be subscribed to via RSS.

Original /r/linux_gaming pengwing by uoou.

No memes/shitposts/low-effort posts, please.

Resources

WWW:

  • Linux Gaming wiki
  • Gaming on Linux
  • ProtonDB
  • Lutris
  • PCGamingWiki
  • LibreGameWiki
  • Boiling Steam
  • Phoronix

Discord:

  • Gaming on Linux
  • Linux Gamers Group
  • Linux Gaming
  • Lutris

IRC:

  • Gaming on Linux

Matrix:

  • Linux Gamers Group (space)
  • Linux Gamers Group (“home” room)
  • Linux Gaming

Telegram:

  • Gaming on Linux
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 488 users / day
  • 1.36K users / week
  • 2.86K users / month
  • 9.65K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 21.9K subscribers
  • 1.94K Posts
  • 14.7K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • monolalia@lemmy.world
  • BE: 0.19.8
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org