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Steam data reveals PC gamers shifting from Windows to Linux (www.tweaktown.com)
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[โ€“] nfreak@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I ran a dual boot back in college to dabble with Linux a bit but gaming support back then was literally nonexistent. The Deck and Proton really reinvigorated that drive nearly a decade later.

This past winter I started a huge degoogling push and trying to replace big tech platforms in general, and I'd also recently quit the only the game I regularly played that didn't run on Linux due to anticheat bullshit,, so I said fuck it and set up a CachyOS dual boot and I haven't looked back since.

The dual boot is just there in case I ever need it for some odds or ends, or in case I break Cachy, but so far I've booted windows maybe 4 times since January.

[โ€“] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 days ago

This last try at gaming under Linux (about a year ago with a desktop PC and Pop!OS) was a pleasant surprise given that my previous try (same machine, around 5 years before) was an exercise in frustration and I just gave up on it and that partition just stayed there in a dual boot config without being used until I nuked it in this latest try.

This time it went so well that I'm now full time gaming in Linux and even though Windows is available as dual boot, I haven't booted it in many months. Granted, I don't do online multiplayer so don't suffer from Wine not being compatible with the Windows rootkits used for cheat protection in some of those games.

And this high success rate is not even exclusively with Steam and Proton - I get about the same rate of success for games from GOG with Wine under Lutris.

The ease of gaming in Linux seems to have advanced massively in the last few years.