Even gamers nexus’ Steve today said that they’re about to start doing Linux games performance testing soon. It’s happening, y’all, the year of the Linux desktop is upon us. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

  • Eyck_of_denesle
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    7 hours ago

    I saw a post on bluesky saying Steamdeck can’t be widely adopted because of linux. I asked why is that the case? He says "Linux doesn’t run as many games as windows ". I said “only a few and the anti cheat ones”. He kept arguing. I asked him about nintendo and he goes “It has the games to back it up” and I blocked him lol.

    Millions of games are not enough because its FOMO.

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      2 hours ago

      I have both. As a pure console I still prefer the Switch, and there is a huge overlap in the games. But the Deck is much more than just a gaming handheld, it is now my only PC as well.

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        50 minutes ago

        I understand why there are so many Nintendo gamers. I’m just pointing out the hypocrisy of people. Whenever it comes to linux, they demand everything be perfect. They never show the same attitude towards others. Captialism shills.

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          39 minutes ago

          Nintendo has fans and is an established brand. But I think what most people dislike is the uncertainty. With the Switch you can know for certain all games you buy will work, but with the Steam Deck it’s not guaranteed though it will scan your library and give you a rating. Though in my case I had many “unsupported” games actually work flawlessly.

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      5 hours ago

      Linux doesn’t run as many games as Windows

      I’d argue it runs more due to compatibility breaks. Wine just-werks with a lot of old installers.

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        4 hours ago

        Indeed. I couldn’t get a couple of old 3DO games working on windows 10/11 even though I bought them on Steam.

        Work great on Linux w/ Photon (aka wine).

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        3 hours ago

        Hit or miss sadly, but still damn close to magic. I can play skyrim and it runs… As expected, but can’t install dark souls rn.

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          1 hour ago

          I’ve got Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition (with DSFix) working just fine.

          I don’t remember having to do anything weird… Have you tried ProtonGE? Maybe it was DSFix that makes it work? I don’t remember if I tried playing without DSFix first.

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            1 hour ago

            My copy’s pirated thats prolly Why u don’t have issues, I’m launching the installer wine installer.exe

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      7 hours ago

      any game that needs to install a rootkit on my computer to play it was never going on my computer anyway. Proton can more or less handle every else on linux at this point. Hardware driver support is getting quite mature too. 2025 is legitimately the year of the linux gaming desktop imo.