Valve is pouring money into Arch Linux to further improve Steam gaming

[adisoftcafe]

I'm not aware of any technical reason that it can't. Can you elaborate on why you think it can't?


The beauty of Linux is that it can be used for any purpose you choose to build it for. You should know this as a 20+ year Linux user.


I game on Linux regularly. The main thing holding some games back is the anti-cheat some developers use. The framework to make the anti-cheat software run on Linux is generally available to the developers, so it simply comes down to their choice to not code for Linux, not Linux itself.

The Anti-cheat is a big problem. I game on Linux too, it is ok most of the time - Fedora KDE.

 

[GoldenGoat]

I use Linux on several PCs, just not for gaming - it sucks for gaming, at least in 99 out of 100 games.

I've been playing on Linux with proton the last few months almost exclusively and have had zero problems. I've played a lot of Sony games, which were originally written for FreeBSD, but I've played other stuff too like Resident Evil and everything has worked perfectly.

 

[Rapob]

I've been playing on Linux with proton the last few months almost exclusively and have had zero problems. I've played a lot of Sony games, which were originally written for FreeBSD, but I've played other stuff too like Resident Evil and everything has worked perfectly.

Old games is not the problem really.
Try new and demanding games. Or multiplayer games with anticheat.

I played PC games on Linux 15-20 years ago using WINE. Yes some games work.

What I am saying is, Linux can't replace Windows for people that actually use their PC to play games, as in new games, using top tier hardware and that don't want to be limited in terms of game selection.

On Windows you can play 100% of PC games.
You can't on Linux and most that will actually run, runs far worse.