Currently on Steam:

19338 games are compatible with Linux and SteamOS

While there are 145462 games on Steam

Which only translates to 13,3% of games on Steam being compatible with Linux.

It is better than before, but where the fuck do they get 90% from?

I’m fully Linux for two years now, have played ~140 games and had a total of 2 major issues and 2 minor issues with games:

• Cyberpunk 2077 (at least before the 2.0 update) crashed frequently because of a called function that the nvidia gpu driver couldn’t handle. Since I switched to AMD this has been resolved and I had no issue whatsoever, even modded
• Minecraft has a memory freeing issue when using an AMD GPU (kinda ironic) which causes the game to crash every 3-5 hours or so. This is resolved by either restarting the game gracefully every few hours or not being an addict
• I couldn’t get achievements to log for Return to Moria on any proton version I had. Kind of silly problem but I’m an achievement hunter so it still annoys me
• the windows version of fear and hunger via proton runs better than the native Linux version, especially on steam deck. It’s weird but I don’t make the rules

I’ve been gaming in Linux since the days Unreal Tournament had a Linux version, or even before that.

The only game I want to play that still doesn’t work is Heretic II, which probably is based on some cursed DX9 engine or something.

Newer games I don’t even bother to check before buying, they just work.

Edit: Hexen, not Heretic.

Happy Linux player. I play mostly single player so I don’t have many issues. For anyone thinking about switching

• if your games are on steam it’s really easy to run them and most of the times you just have to install them and press play
• if a game is new you may need to switch it to a newer version of Proton while the main one gets updated. It takes 2 clicks to open the compatibility settings tab and then you can select the version
• if a game needs a custom setting to run you’ll probably read it on protondb and it takes 2 clicks to add it
• go on protondb and log with your steam account to check how many of your games are compatible, gold or platinum means it’s good
• compatibility gets better every week
• mods may be harder to install
• Linux is easy to use
• Nvidia cards works well on Linux
• yes, sometimes you may break it but you can also fix it. The official windows forum is a graveyard full of “you have to reinstall windows”
• you can try Linux without installing it (but don’t use it for gaming or stuff that need reboots because live install lose changes)
• dual boot works so you don’t need to drop windows immediately

This is my protondb compatibility tab for around 1600 games

https://ibb.co/xK2x3nR7

I’ve not looked back in 3+ years.

But I really wonder how many of these same articles we need before more significant numbers of people actually ditch Windows. It saves you money. It saves you time. Many Windows games run better on Linux. And yet, the market share increase is a steady trickle rather than a deluge.

No percentage is good enough for PCMR. Long live Microsoft’s Master Race!

(I’m being ironic, obviously.)