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

Happy Linux player. I play mostly single player so I don't have many issues. For anyone thinking about switching

• if your games are on steam it's really easy to run them and most of the times you just have to install them and press play
• if a game is new you may need to switch it to a newer version of Proton while the main one gets updated. It takes 2 clicks to open the compatibility settings tab and then you can select the version
• if a game needs a custom setting to run you'll probably read it on protondb and it takes 2 clicks to add it
• go on protondb and log with your steam account to check how many of your games are compatible, gold or platinum means it's good
• compatibility gets better every week
• mods may be harder to install
• Linux is easy to use
• Nvidia cards works well on Linux
• yes, sometimes you may break it but you can also fix it. The official windows forum is a graveyard full of "you have to reinstall windows"
• you can try Linux without installing it (but don't use it for gaming or stuff that need reboots because live install lose changes)
• dual boot works so you don't need to drop windows immediately

This is my protondb compatibility tab for around 1600 games

https://ibb.co/xK2x3nR7

Gaming was the missing piece for me for years, and I'm happily gaming on Linux now with little to no hassle.

The biggest annoyance I've faced is that discord isn't auto-detecting some games when streaming to friends, which is such a minor thing.

No percentage is good enough for PCMR. Long live Microsoft’s Master Race!

(I’m being ironic, obviously.)

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?

I switch to Linux 2 days ago and have been enjoying testing my Steam library. So far, everything Ive tested run BETTER in Mint than they did on Win10. Im currently waiting on BG3's massive 120GB download to complete but I'm looking forward to finally booting it up again.

The Linux community has been so friggin helpful in getting me up and going.

I'm fully Linux for two years now, have played ~140 games and had a total of 2 major issues and 2 minor issues with games:

• Cyberpunk 2077 (at least before the 2.0 update) crashed frequently because of a called function that the nvidia gpu driver couldn’t handle. Since I switched to AMD this has been resolved and I had no issue whatsoever, even modded
• Minecraft has a memory freeing issue when using an AMD GPU (kinda ironic) which causes the game to crash every 3-5 hours or so. This is resolved by either restarting the game gracefully every few hours or not being an addict
• I couldn’t get achievements to log for Return to Moria on any proton version I had. Kind of silly problem but I’m an achievement hunter so it still annoys me
• the windows version of fear and hunger via proton runs better than the native Linux version, especially on steam deck. It’s weird but I don’t make the rules

I've been gaming in Linux since the days Unreal Tournament had a Linux version, or even before that.

The only game I want to play that still doesn't work is Heretic II, which probably is based on some cursed DX9 engine or something.

Newer games I don't even bother to check before buying, they just work.

Edit: Hexen, not Heretic.

I ran a fresh win 10 vm to debug an RGB mic, and it was surprisingly how much garbage it shoves on you on a fresh install. ads, OneDrive, bunch of crap. Linux by comparison is much nicer to deal with.