PC Master Race

At the same time the small amount of games that don't support Linux also happen to be some of the biggest and most popular ones.

Linux gamer for 3+ years now. I rarely, rarely have any issues with anything at all, and most of those are solved by switching to Proton GE or Experimental. Most of the time I think stuff actually runs better than on Windows.

But to be clear, I don't really play anything multiplayer. The sole exceptions like Civ VI have worked perfectly fine, but my understanding is that a big reason these larger multiplayer games don't work is their anticheat.

Been gaming on linux for the better part of last couple of decades, can agree its in a muhc better place now and its a rarety to find a title that doesn't work through proton. There are some but not a massive amount.

Kinda ironic but out of the ones that don't work for proton, sometimes they work via wine instead

Damn near anything good works under proton. Cyberpunk 2077 is basically flawless out of the box. No issues with a lot of other newer games.

Ironically some of the older ones like Fallout 3 need a little bit of hackery to get the radio working

I don’t understand this infographic at all…

Proton is like magic. I remember when gaming on Linux only worked for some rather old games. Now you can almost buy anything from Steam and expect it to work on Linux. What surprised me the most was that even Enderal, an excellent total conversion mod for Skyrim, just worked. The same goes for the newest Hitman. I expected that I have to do some tinkering, but no. You click play and that is it. I doubt that any of these games where ever tested on Linux by their developers. That they all work so well shows how good of a job the developers of Proton, DXVK, and Wine are doing.

You don't want to count Silver as working well. Still incredible though.

Out of everything i play, the only game holding me back is Destiny 2, which was explicitly refused support for.

Everything else works phenomenally well, and in some rare cases, performs a lot better.

The only struggle point is heavily modded games with tools that assume i’m doing this on windows, but times are changing too

72% platinum and gold, 86% plat, gold and silver. I'm honestly surprised that this isn't higher because almost everything I play just works (I do have a lot of random games in my account from humble bundles and such, so I don't even play a good amount of them).

Funny enough what I've been playing recently is Minecraft. Downloaded the Prism launcher, linked my account, installed the game and the BetterMC modpack which includes pretty heavy lighting shaders, get an easy 120fps with absolutely zero tinkering besides telling the game to use my systems OpenAL rather than the bundled one, as that was causing a crash. I do have a relatively beefy system so the performance isn't what I'm impressed by, moreso the fact that this was all up and running in 5 minutes.

I was so surprised that I was able to get Genshin running on my steam deck through wine. I remember when the deck came out, everyone was saying that games that use anti cheat software wouldn't work on the deck. But both Genshin and Elden Ring work on the deck.

For me it's less positive, but still quite impressive!

I'm not sure why, but playing Final Fantasy XIV worked better in Linux using Wine than it did on Windows. There's a joke about net code in the game such that all effects take a half second or so to register, so there's always a little lag for better or worse.

On Linux, somehow things just registered when they happened on screen. Took getting used to!

How do you generate this?

I launched might and magic 9 on my steam deck and it fucking worked straight away. It's a 2002 game that was barely working even back then. I didn't have to do anything today get it to work. SHIT JUST WORKS

Borked is Destiny 2 and Wildstar (whose servers are permanently offline)

Too bad this apparently only counts Steam games. Lately, I've been trying to use GOG (because no DRM) whenever possible.

Which games are "borked"?

"why doesn't my recently released porn game work under proton" mfers when they realize they can't tell other people they're trying to play porn games on linux.

%1 Chromebook Ready😂😂

79% gold and platinum, 87% platinum gold and silver, I've definitely played a number of "not supported" (or too early access to be on proton db). Of 1405 games I'd say I'm set for life

The site is https://www.protondb.com/ if you want to check your own library.

Can you use that site to see which of your games fall into each category? I've got a few in the red bronze and silver, but it would be nice to see at a glance which of them it is.