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by 999900000999 19 days ago
Recent big multiplayer games:

Marathon, no Linux support.

Call of Duty, no Linux support.

Battlefield 6, no Linux support.

Valorant, no Linux support.

The Finals works and is great, but I'd be mindful of what games I'm giving up if considering a full switch
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esseph 19 days ago
Those all require kernel level anticheat.
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seba_dos1 19 days ago
...and yet out of 280 multiplayer games in my library 200 are marked as Deck Verified or Playable (and most of the rest has no rating available). Also, looks like all of your examples are from a single particular niche.
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999900000999 19 days ago
I like Linux alot.

But if the biggest multiplayer games straight up don't support it, that needs to be acknowledged.

Add League of Legends to the list.

I've had Deck verified games straight up refuse to work on Linux.

It always feels like it's my fault somehow. 'Well of COURSE Wayland doesn't work, skill issue'. Vs Windows where I can blame Microsoft.

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seba_dos1 19 days ago
It should be acknowledged, yes, but not while failing to mention that it mostly applies to the genre of competitive shooters. "Generally don't run" doesn't apply to pretty much anything else, where a statement closer to truth would be "generally run, with some notable exceptions".
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simoncion 18 days ago
> ...where a statement closer to truth would be "generally run, with some notable exceptions".

Yep. Devs usually have to actively make their game not work on Proton for it to not work on the version of Proton that Steam ships. Most devs aren't so petty as to put in that extra work, so they don't.

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