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@lemmy.zip
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    6 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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      1 hour 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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      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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        3 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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          32 minutes 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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            11 minutes ago

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