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Re:Great News 80% of Steam’s Top Games Now Run on Linux by phendrenad2 on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @11:39PM (#29645651)
Considering that the Steam library is > 80% Unity asset flip shovelware, it's hard to figure out what this means in reality.

A better metric would be how many of the top 50 games worldwide run on Linux (including console exclusives). That would be a good universal metric that could be used to compare not just compatibility, but also porting efforts.

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Re:Great News 80% of Steam’s Top Games Now Run on Linux by kf6nux on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @12:07AM (#29645795)
Why include console exclusives? Aren't people trying to compare Windows as a gaming platform to Linux as a gaming platform?
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Re:Great News 80% of Steam’s Top Games Now Run on Linux by ranguna on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @03:02AM (#29646649)
In case you didn't know about this website: https://www.protondb.com/

58% of the top 100 are "generally playable" with minor issues.

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Re:Great News 80% of Steam’s Top Games Now Run on Linux by phendrenad2 on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @11:12AM (#29651205)
It's not accurate as a metric. It's missing many popular games, such as Fortnite.
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Re:Great News 80% of Steam’s Top Games Now Run on Linux by ranguna on Friday December 24, 2021 @04:34AM (#29672037)
Wow you're right, didn't know that.
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