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You Can Play Over 2,600 Windows Games on Linux Via Steam Play (tomshardware.com)
At the end of August, Valve announced a new version of Steam Play for Linux that included Proton, a WINE fork that made many Windows games, including more recent ones ,such as Witcher 3, Dark Souls 3 and Dishonored, playable on Linux. Just two months later, ProtonDB says there are over 2,600 Windows games that users can play on Linux, and the number is rapidly growing daily. From a report: When Valve Software launched Steam Play with Proton, it made it easier for gamers to play Windows games that hadn't yet been ported to Linux with the click of a button. Not all games may run perfectly on Linux, but that's also often the case with Windows 10, which can not play older games as well as previous versions of Windows did, even under Compatibility Mode. In only two months, the database of games that work with Proton has increased to over 2,600 -- more than half of the 5,000 Linux-native games that can be obtained through the Steam store.
Steam is illegally stealing Windows and letting cheap freeloading Linux losers play Microsoft's games! They should sue!
All I want is my classic Quake
and my first p0st!
Linux already has solitaire and minesweeper.
Why UNIX?
Enjoyed being spied on and/or living in a walled garden.
Not a fair metric when 90% are crappy clones of each other.
Better metric would be, how many games that I want to play work on Steam on Linux, I promise you the number is far, far lower then the Hackers Quarterly.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
Tux Racer is the only game Linux needsd
I don't see the business model of trying to sell to freetards.
Someone pissed in this dude's windows cheerios.
just get star trek online working and I'll never use windows again, even at work
Check out Xonotic. A modern, fast paced arena FPS. Really awesome game but it could use more players!
Linux, Mac, and Windows binaries available and it is open source.
100% free. No loot boxes, no ads, you are not the product, and it never tries to sell you shit. Free period.
the database of games that work with Proton has increased to over 2,600
But how many of that number are simply variants on hitting something, shooting something or jumping over something?
While the number of games sounds imppressive, how many of those titles are actually novel or unique and how many are simply variants on the small number of 30 year-old concepts?
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
Been using Linux on desktop systems both professionally and privately for nearly 10 years now. Don't kick it till you tried it. Also, you do realize that every single Android device is running Linux? And most smart TVs and so many other devices... Windows is actually a niche now... It tries to be Apple but can't quite cut it due to corporate pressure... so sad.
And unfortunately, the company seems to have zero interest in releasing an Ubuntu client.
(Let's be real, just saying we'd appreciate a GNU/Linux client is too much to ask.)
Ah yes, the small niche market of 99% of business desktops and the vast majority of home PCs.
Someone pissed in this dude's ... cheerios.
Did you know that that's actually a thing?
For those that want to look at the ProtonDB site.
https://www.protondb.com/
I have yet to run Steam under Linux because Steam is basically malware. Since Windows 10 is also basically malware, running Steam didn't bother me as much.
Random breakages, strange error messages, complicated multistep fixes.
That's the typical Windows 10 experience.
Circumcision is child abuse.
Congratulations!
Chromebooks are pretty goddamned legit now. About 90% of my customers could probably do all their business functions on them and that number would be 100% if more small dev shops would quit using MSVB6something front ends that haven't been updated since Windows NT was a thing for MSSQL Express databases and move their client logic to some kind of web application instead.
No cure for games but Steam and nVidia both have remote display systems that work pretty well for that if you really need it.
-- I wanna decide who lives and who dies - Crow T. Robot, MST3K
With either Native Linux or Steam Play. I have about 10 games that cannot run in Linux... that is it. I got Fallout4 with mods running over the weekend. I have another 100 running in either wine or crossover. Who needs windows? And since Fallout76 is a no go for me, I wont need windows now.
That's ok, Windows now comes with complete built-in Linux distributions (under Windows Linux Subsystem) allowing freeloading Windows losers to do work! He should sue!
> Ah yes, the small niche market of 99% of business desktops and the vast majority of home PCs.
So what? I probably wouldn't be satisfied with ANY of your other consumer choices either. You probably have no taste what so ever.
The beautiful thing about a free market is that I don't have to be held hostage by your stupid choices.
Although your FUD is simply out of date. Microsoft is entirely optional these days.
You may even find the non-WinDOS games on Steam to your liking.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
I just recently tried adding an additional hard drive to a Win10. What a hot mess that is. It's like they are going out of their way to annoy everyone both n00bs and power users.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Of course, half the dads reading that article are thinking "I don't get it, what's wrong with peeing on the floor?"
For those labouring under the assumption that these counts are inflated with crappy games, I collected some stats on the 4500 best games on Steam. These are the ones that Steam flags as "Very Positive" or "Overwhelmingly Positive" based on aggregated reviews. Of those, 1500 are supported natively on Linux and another 1500 are playable without much trouble in Proton. It's also become clear that most of the reports being submitted to ProtonDB are for the better, well-known games. Hardly anyone is submitting reports on the crappy shovelware games.
Yup, same. Occassionally I've got to use windows or OSX but hugely prefer Linux or BSD.
Didn't you hear? The mueller witch hunt is wrapping up. They got nothing on Trump.
So sorry your made up conspiracy theory didn't pan out. Maybe you can sell your tinfoil to recoup some of your losses. The tears though, those are just plain write-offs.
Not if the damns get both house and senate. Go out and vote!
GNU/Linux may not have all the best games, but who cares? People don't game on PCs any more. They've turned to dedicated console devices and smart phones. In the past 10 years I've sold only a handful of graphics cards to customers running GNU/Linux and mostly people in the sciences rather than the gaming world.
Comparatively the prior 10 years PC gaming was a thing and I'd regularly have people ask about graphics cards and gaming on GNU/Linux. Back in 2005 I'd still regularly interact with people who were into PC gaming. In fact my company is the largest retailer of GNU/Linux hardware in the world and we don't even stock any significant quantity of a modern graphics cards in which to play modern games on it's become so irrelevant in terms of overall demand. Comparatively we sell more hardware of all classes and types to GNU/Linux users than anybody else.
About 90% of my customers could probably do all their business functions on them and that number would be 100% if more small dev shops would quit using MSVB6something front ends that haven't been updated since Windows NT was a thing for MSSQL Express databases and move their client logic to some kind of web application instead.
Let's say the developer rewrites the server side in Python, C#, or some other "modern" language. How would the user run the server on the Chromebook as well so that the user can continue to use the application while away from an Internet connection? As far as I'm aware, that would require one of two things: A. developer mode, which runs the risk of losing everything every time you turn it on; or B. selling your Chromebook and putting the money toward buying one of the newer Chromebooks that supports Crostini.
No cure for games but Steam and nVidia both have remote display systems that work pretty well for that if you really need it.
Cellular Internet service providers in Slashdot's home country charge $10 per GB for tethering. How much data transfer per hour can a user expect when running these "remote display systems" in standard definition (circa 800x480 pixels, 30 fps)? And how much latency does it add?
>people
More like normalf**s. Any gamer worth their ping won't touch a console with a 32-bit pole.
Can you elaborate on what the problem was? I had to do the same as well for my desktop and it just... worked. Had to go into the disk management tool after doing so, prompted me to initialize to either MB or GPT, then made the partitions I wanted, formatting was done, completed pretty easily.
Of course there's always the chance that something else happened to you and you needed help, but since you didn't elaborate on what exactly happened and instead preferred to just rant like a typical loser on the Internet, I'm less sympathetic and more inclined to think of it as user error.