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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
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
And some games want an older version of Proton (like River City Girls), so it’s not always intuitive what the fix might be, but there’s several options to improve compatibility, these days.
Now that ntsync has been added to the upstream kernel for the next release, it will only get better.
better part of last couple of decades
You mean like the lock down period
Kinda ironic but out of the ones that don’t work for proton, sometimes they work via wine instead
Kinda weird rather, because Proton is basically wine + a lot of profiled tweaks for the titles. With wine you usually have to manually figure out tweaks or use third party installers, like through Lutris, which often also are somewhat wacky.
Exactly but since it worked, i am not complaining 😅
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
Does the RTX and DLSS work in Cyberpunk 2077 on Linux?
I was able to get it working perfectly fine. It was dicey around a year ago and required some run flags. Now it runs perfectly fine (for me at least)
As of a couple months ago, the ray tracing also works in Linux when on AMD.
%1 Chromebook Ready😂😂
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.
I’m honestly at a loss as to why they are so popular. I barely remember the last time I enjoyed a AAA game. The only notable exceptions would probably be Baldur’s Gate 3 and Dishonored, which both work. Personally I haven’t run into any games that wouldn’t work and as much as I’d love to dismiss those (fucking atrocious) games, I get your point about it preventing popular adoption. Sadly it’s not something Linux can easily fix, as long as companies insist on using windows specific versions of anti cheat software (despite Linux versions of the same stuff existing) just so they can have kernel access to your machine.
Lots of people really enjoy competitive games. Competitive multi-player games attract the most cheaters, resulting in the strictest anti-cheat measures (which still barely work, honestly).
Frankly the only game I haven’t been able to play (besides a couple of old MMO private servers I couldn’t get running) has been Fortnite, and there’s frankly no reason it shouldn’t run on Linux already, Epic just sucks
It doesn’t run because Tim Sweeny is a salty jerk who had one negative interaction with a Linux user (the Linux user just posted a rice and he was pissed he couldn’t do that on Windows)
It wasn’t even a rice, just panel on the left side.
It doesn’t run because Tim Sweeny is a salty jerk who had one negative interaction with a Linux user (the Linux user just posted a rice and he was pissed he couldn’t do that on Windows)
Yeah, he’s a shithead. “We just don’t have enough developers” my ass
Linux users: please release your software on Linux
Tim Sweeny: we don’t have enough developers
The over 800 employees Tim Sweeny fired:
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.
Minecraft? CS2? Dota 2?
Good thing I don’t play mtx/fomo games.
It’s more competitive ones. And yes, I know they come with that shit too but not all FOMO games are pvp games and Linux has plenty of working multiplayer games with that shit.
What competitive ones? Counterstrike and quake are on Linux just fine. R6 siege is cool, but the only reason you can’t run it on Linux is because the publisher is specifically blocking that.
Obviously not Valve titles. lol I don’t even know why you’re asking though, you know full well which games we’re talking about.
Nope. I don’t. You bring it up like there’s a competitive game that matters we’re missing out on. Is it the new Tribes?
Oh please save me the bad faith crap. Just look over at Epic. And next you say “they don’t matter”, to which I say “none of them matter”, since it is a purely subjective opinion to have.
LMAO!!!
There are far better wrong answers, and you raced straight to the bottom. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, I won’t be looking over at epic.
Tbh neither do I, Debian runs all the games I personally want. My point is its not for everyone.
Joke’s on you, I play Dota.
🤮
Good même but you can very much run lol on Linux. It’s weird around the edges especially in the launcher but it’s definitely playable.
Didn’t they transition it to the same kernel-level antichest that Valorant uses? IIRC, that anticheat absolutely refuses to let you run it on Linux.
AFAIK there is a work around to run MacOS in a VM and run the Mac client which doesn’t have kernel anti cheat, but meh, why bother?
Yeah, but it is a PITA to setup a MacOS VM. Even if you get it working, it will probably be unsupported in a year or 2 because of Apple Silicon. All that effort just to play league lmao
Since when?
They switched the ac to use the vanguard kernel level ac so the workaround doesn’t work anymore.
Oh noes, my lootboxes!
For me it’s less positive, but still quite impressive!
The tier # system will lean towards negative results compared to Plat/Gold etc.
Lot of indies and linux compatibility is high in my priorities.
Does this mean 58% of my games would just work and rest need tinkering or are broken?
From my experience, only “borked” are without hope. (Almost?) All of the silver games work on my deck, I can’t remember the last one that didn’t work. I’ve had one verified game that doesn’t work at all, I believe square enix borked it with a patch (because they released the "hd"version and didn’t want to support the previous one, aka they deliberately broke the working version)
Which games are “borked”?
For my library of 390 games, only 2 are “Borked”.
One is Magic: Duels, which was discontinued by WOTC back in 2019. It’s still playable on Windows, but seeing as it was kind of a weird experiment they did that ultimately got replaced by Arena I can understand the lack of support there. Also it was free, and I got clean a few years ago, so I’m not salty.
The other of Flatout 3 (the car racing/destruction game, not to be confused with the similarly named Fallout 3). I remembered seeing ads and reviews for Flatout back in PSM when I was a kid. Never got to play it back then, but I grabbed the series bundle on sale at some point. Still haven’t played any of them yet, but it appears the issue with Flatout 3 in particular is… It’s a bad game. Just learned this now, but apparently it was made by a different developer than the first games and is, by review score, one of the worst games of all time. So there’s probably not a whole lot of demand for it on Linux.
Fun stuff. Always neat to find a new way to look at the library.
Usually games that require some shitty anti-cheat.
Destiny 2 and Tarkov is my guess.
Games where the devs actively reject Linux support.
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
Like The Elder Scrolls? I’ve been paying Oblivion for a while with a ton of mods using a mod manager and I don’t know how to run this in Linux.
https://github.com/rockerbacon/modorganizer2-linux-installer Small caveat at the moment though is that Protontricks is borked and requires a more up to date version than what’s on most repos and flathub. I used the pipx install for Protontricks and that one worked though, but I think the beta branch on Flathub has an updated version now as well, which hopefully goes stable soon. Nexus is also working on a new cross platform compatible mod manager now, but that’s going to be far away.
For a lot of other games r2modman + Thunderstore are also working natively on Linux. Games like Stardew Valley have a native mod manager like Stardrop.
Destiny is garbage.
Yes. It’s so garbage I wrote a master’s thesis on how shit it is. If I didn’t have over 1,000 hours in the game, it would have been substantially harder to do this.
Ooohhh, master’s thesis!
I paid 20 grand to be poor
I don’t recall asking for your input
Welcome to a community post on the Internet! You don’t need to ask.
How do you generate this?
Just link your account at Protondb and go to the dashboard. https://www.protondb.com/dashboard
You just log in with your Steam Account to ProtonDB.
Thank you
More like 84%. Silver tier is probably way more unplayable than on Windows.
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.
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!
You don’t want to count Silver as working well. Still incredible though.
Why? From my experience, many Silver games do work with minor tweaks. Some might have issues, but I wouldn’t discount them all.
By definition Silver means some stuff is broken even with workarounds. Gold is where the performance and functionality works near perfectly after some workarounds. You’re right, some Silver games do work fairly well, and the rating may or may not be accurate. But I wouldn’t count most of them to the total of well supported games.
That’s the definition but in practice silver could mean anything. For example Pico Park is rated silver but has a lot of recent positive ratings.
What I don’t get is why some games (even newer ones) don’t work in newer versions of proton but do work in older versions of proton.
I’m talking games working in proton 7.x or 8.<low number> that don’t work in say proton 9 or proton 8.<higher number>.
I rarely seem to have any luck with newer versions let alone proton experimental.
🤷♂️
Some newer tweaks might interfere with older games, but in my personal experience it’s very rare that a game does not work with the latest versions and I typically run experimental or the latest GE build.
Out of 73 games
