Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux

Re:Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux by tyrfing on Saturday September 11, 2021 @01:34PM (#28493915)

With some trickery you only need the MS account for setup. You can also transfer the key to a completely new system.

With a bit more time to prune services/apps and set up something like simplewall to block everything else, you have a pretty decent setup. Sure, it's not FOSS, but neither is Steam or any of those games.

Looking at my personal selection of long-tail games, about 1/3 work perfectly on Linux, another 1/3 don't work at all, and the last 1/3 have various levels of yak-shaving tweaking settings before they run well. That last 1/3 is why I went back to Windows years ago.

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Re:Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux by skohan on Saturday September 11, 2021 @03:33PM (#28495106)

If you went back years ago, you might have missed how good Linux gaming has gotten recently.

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Re:Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux by tyrfing on Saturday September 11, 2021 @04:39PM (#28495724)

I understand that, it's why I went down my list of games to check the current state. A lot seem to work very well now, some are completely broken due to anticheat systems, and many still have discussion of tweaks and versions to coax them into running decently.

Seems like singleplayer games mostly work very well.

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