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Linux on the desktop breaks 4% for the first time on Statcounter (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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[–] 66 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Didn't we also just break 3% last year, or am I mistaken? Either way, awesome news for the FOSS community.

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  • [–] 61 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    Yep and it seems to line up with the rise of the Steam Deck and all the discussion around how viable gaming on Linux is these days. I think there were/are a LOT of people that only stick with Windows due to gaming. Hopefully as gaming support continues to improve on Linux more of those people will make the switch.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    I don't even think much when running games anymore. Even DRM-free games I get from Gog I can just click on and run with Wine most of the time. It's so awesome.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Sometimes games that won't work on 10/11 work happily on wine/proton. Fun times.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    😂 this happened to me but I can't remember the game.

    Also on Elden ring on windows, any time I exit the game that stupid anticheat window stays there until I force close from task manager.

    When I realized Elden ring ran fine in Linux, I didn't have this problem. For me, Elden ring legit runs better on Linux than windows...

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Same.

    I only have a handful of games I cant play, and thats due entirely to their shitty choice of DRM.. and thats not a big detriment cause that obscene DRM would have kept me away on Windows, anyway.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Same here. The games with rootkit and invasive spyware anti-cheat don't work, but I avoided those games like the plague on windows already so this just makes it easier for me to avoid. That shit doesn't work anyway, it just makes people not automatically jump to accusing people of cheating when they get owned...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    One game that's really inconsistent about running on Wine is Roblox, which iirc won't run at all anymore due to the new anti-cheat which deliberately prevents running with Wine.

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