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PC Gamer: "I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop" (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] themoken@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

I have been a user since around 2000, I work in Linux every day, and I get where you're coming from - but in the context of gaming Linux has really only recently come into its own.

Like, could you imagine, circa 2010, telling a naive user that practically their whole Steam library would work with one click? Wine has always been a minor miracle, but at some point there was an inversion between being surprised when it worked, and being surprised that it didn't work...

[-] morto@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

I used to be shocked when a game ran in wine without any manual intervention. Now I'm shocked when it doesn't!

[-] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Only game I played on Linux before Proton was Minecraft Java (cracked) for Ubuntu in like 2014.

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