[Night_Thastus]

Yes. Frankly, there's still a lot of software that is either only available on Windows or only works well on Windows. Plus, for all its criticisms, Windows is very good at "just working" out of the box without having to fiddle with it.

For 99% of of people out there, that's preferable to all the headaches you can get under Linux.

And for gaming, yes, it's still essentially the only real option. Out of the library of games I own maybe 10% work on Linux out of the box, and maybe 1/3 with WINE and a lot of work.

[nisegami]

Regarding gaming, the only real issues these days are exactly anti-cheat and VR. Most other games work perfectly fine.

[wkat4242]

Yeah the VR thing is a total dealbreaker for me :'( Otherwise I wouldn't bother with Windows at all.

But I play mainly VR.

[moxvallix]

Thats weird, because pretty much any game I have wanted to play on Steam (with the exception of a couple VR titles) have run flawlessly on my Linux machine. Proton works for the majority of games, I have found.

I know games with anti cheat often don’t run, but those are the exception not the rule.

[hedora]

Strange. About 90% of my windows game library (99% of my windows + dos library) run on Linux.

Only about 50% of my windows game library still runs on windows.

MacOS is even worse: ~33% of my mac games still run on macos; ~90% of them have windows/linux ports that run on Linux.

[Saris]

I assume you're playing a lot of older games, so Linux support is generally OK. But with newer stuff and especially competitive multiplayer stuff support is not very good on Linux.

[gipp]

IME just enabling experimental proton support in Steam is enough to run 75-85% of games I'm interested in.

[vsgherzi]

anything with kernel level anti cheat is a non starter unfortunately...that being said games shouldn't be doing that anyway

[SuperNinKenDo]

I believe that's less of an issue in Proton now, although for a lot of those cases, the develop has to recompile some stuff. Seems more or less painless, but they do need to make the effort to go and do it.

[hedora]

I've never encountered that (though something similar happened with a ubisoft game on my unmodified Nintendo Switch...), but can't you just grab a pirate copy if this happens?

[Saris]

Not for multiplayer stuff where anti-cheat is commonly used.

[Saris]

I gave Linux a try again on my laptop and the first game I tried (EVE Online) just said "not supported" when I tried to run it via Steam. So not a good start so far.