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this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2025
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It's kinda funny you mention all those points to me, when I've been gaming on Linux for about 3 years now. I play on steam, use heroic for gog games, play a lot of modded D2.... All in Linux. Saying that Microsoft treats backwards compatibility and support when they are forcing everyone to either pay for win10 support or join the win11 spyware mafia is a ludicrous statement btw.
Games with kernel-level anticheat do work on Linux, if the anticheat provider has done the work. Right now, most don't and actively stopped supporting Linux so saying that won't work ever is kind of a stretch.
"Isn't good enough to replace windows" - here I am playing Modded games, path of exile, ffxiv, other FF games, cyberpunk, all PC monster Hunter games.... Your statement is false.
I see nothing wrong with using a compatibility layer, it does the work of retrocompatibility alongside separating game environments, which is good for security.
What are you using as a benchmark? Is there any OS that supports hardware or software this long? Find an original Quake 3 Linux installer and see how that goes. Not sure what spyware has to do with that.
To an end user this is a Linux problem. Like, „Haiku OS can run all the games except developers don’t support it” won’t cut it as an explanation for why your games don’t work.
You’re playing some games. Same can be said about Switch yet everybody here acts like it is some huge failure.
It is reverse engineered and with the level of complexity of Windows and Windows being a moving target it will never get there 100%. You have to make a conscious choice to lose access to some of your games when moving from Windows, and possibly lose access to some games that worked on Linux previously after you moved.
You said that the kernel anticheat problem will never be solved, I challenged that, not that this is seen as a Linux problem for the end user or not.
I play all the games I want to play, no one wants to play all the games, there's no physical time to do so.
Also, all of this is in the context of a tech savvy person. A tech savvy person can tweak almost all games to run properly nowadays... I do and I'm not THAT savvy.
You know that I use Linux too and I know being able to run anything is just bs?
Your not technical savy I guess. It can run anything with some tinkering. You can use steamdb to see what games need to install with proton or ask the developer of indie games what library they use on windows. And there is solutions for everything. I never meet a game wi can't run (except when EA sabotaged their launcher to stop linux users)
I appreciate your perseverance in the face of well sourced facts and that you did that without providing anything yourself.
I sée no source I give no source, why should o be the one doing the search to answer a windows troll ?
Well, Valve fanboys don’t seem to be concerned with factuality so that might work for you. Hopefully normal people see this for what it is.
Especially when it is windows propaganda, but sure. Enjoy you day :)
Let me paint a picture here.
My main computer is a MacBook Air M1, running Mac OS.
My HTPC / home server is an old Steam Machine, Asus GR6. It runs Ubuntu. It has Steam installed and a library of ~500 games btw.
I play current gen games on Xbox Series X and Nintendo Switch 2.
My only Windows machine is an old ThinkPad that I use to flash settings to my car.
I also own plethora of vintage portable consoles and some FPGA for retro stuff.
But I commited blasphemy against Valve, and therefore I’m a Windows troll. Lol, grow up.
Lol valve. Don't care about it. I mostly don't use steam, except for multi players games when network is really needed. I pirate everything and pay for games once I knew they are good. I got triggered by your comments about linux not being ready for gaming. It beat the switch easily, it beat the Xbox easily. Don't try to make yourself a victim. You shit on a full ecosystem without knowing and then cry when people telling you on it.
Have you considered addressing the fact that ProtonDB lists about 40% of Windows games as incompatible?
Yeah they probably do, most people just change proton version and quit after trying some common options. It is pretty unhelpful for non mainstream games. Proton isn't event the best option... You have to look more into wine to set the DLL, tools or dependency which are missing. For exemple most launcher just need the winhttp component and work well. But it is nearly never suggested. Some need to explicitly add a DLL and it's version but same, it is nearly never mentioned.
Edit: I spoke about steamdb not proton db, steam db have a package section which is really helpful to identify DLL.
Who are you trying to bs saying Wine will solve the issues? Wine app DB is a public thing, Winetricks use is assumed for most entries.
I’m done, bye.
I ma not telling it solved anything but you have to do research and learn how to use it, you missed the part I told that you have to tweak for some games. And I don't speak specifically about wine, there are proton ge or wine ge which are options too depending of the situation you have to use vanilla wine, proton, wine ge or protonge and have to change version, it is not user friendly but it work. I play on linux since years, and it may be 2-3 year since I wasn't able to run a game. For more user friendly option you have lutris games installer which work pretty well.
Sure, have a good day.