[jtms]

I spend my entire day in tmux and vim land in a Linux terminal, but as a gamer wanting to play good games, it’s windows all the way. Gaming on Linux just still isn’t there yet.

[krzyk]

It depends on what you look for, Steam has put a lot of work into consolidating ways to run windows-only games to work on Linux.

Aside from that, games like Factorio, Minecraft, Civilization 6, XCOM2, Shadow of Mordor, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided run on Linux just fine.

[uep]

If you have a GPU that supports Vulkan these days, and you play games on Steam, it is very likely that you will be able to play games even without native Linux support. I check before I purchase any games, but it has become very unusual when I encounter a Steam game that I cannot play.

https://www.protondb.com/

Gold or better generally just work. The current ratings for the top 1000 games:

Top Thousand Unrated:61 Borked:6% Bronze+:64% Silver+:59% Gold+:49% Platinum:19% Native:25%

[jtms]

that's really cool - my beefy gaming rig dual boots ubuntu so ill check it out!

[abathur]

and csgo :)

[feanaro]

That's cool, but I don't want to use Windows for games. Games that don't work on Linux (at least through Proton) simply won't get played.

[skohan]

Linux is there, it's just a matter of developer support.