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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    5 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.

    • مهما طال الليل@lemm.ee
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      12 minutes 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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      4 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.

    • TheLastHero [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      5 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.