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Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron (arstechnica.com)
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[+] -10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I actually like to be able to play games on my gaming PC so no thanks, I will stay with windows

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    That's wholly your prerogative, but I just wanted to chime in and say - I was firmly in this camp too, but I've been restricted to a shitty second PC as I don't have access to my usual rig at the moment. Decided it was the time to give Linux a shot after 4-5 years since last time. Every game I've tried has worked with 0 mucking around, outside of games I'm obtaining through uh, less ethical means, which don't just install straight through Steam.

    I know it's only anecdotal and I'm not saying you have to change if you've got no reason to, but gaming isn't really the reason it used to be for not using Linux. Unless you only play competitive shooters with Anti-Cheat that doesn't work on Linux.

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

    Not really an issue for basically any game these days. The Steam Deck running Linux has changed the game significantly. I play video games exclusively on Linux. I haven't booted into my Windows SSD in months. Honestly considering nuking it and making it a game storage drive for Linux.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The amount of Steam games compatible with Linux is about 10 000.

    The amount of Steam games compatible with Windows is about 70 000.

    Stop claiming gaming on Linux isn't an issue anymore. Yeah it is getting better, but it isn't even close to what Windows has to offer at the moment.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    This isn't the full picture of those statistics. 10097 games have Platinum or Gold on protondb, out of 11223 with any results at all. It's not that there's 60k games broken on Linux, it's that there just isn't any data on those.

    The only correct thing to do here is to extrapolate from the data we have, which is around ~90% of games work on Linux. So it's more like 63 000 vs 70 000.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Of the top 1000 games on Steam, only 38 currently don't run at all and 744 of those are Gold or Platinum status on ProtonDB. Having nearly 3/4 of the top 1000 games work flawlessly or nearly so is enough to not need Windows.

    If for some reason it's not, you could dual boot, but I haven't run into a game in months I could not play.

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