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Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers

(arstechnica.com)
433 points Sporktacular | 2 comments | 04 Aug 23 00:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.402s | source
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mkatx ◴[04 Aug 23 02:03 UTC] No.36994570[source]▶
Steam gets all my gaming budget, as I really try to stick to Linux.

If it ain't on steam, I don't play it, and they don't get my money.

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andrewmcwatters ◴[04 Aug 23 02:21 UTC] No.36994692[source]▶
It’s sad to me that you and many others have this opinion, which is fine, but Valve takes a significant tax from small companies while gamers, a cheap demographic, complain about the price of games.

Games don’t need to be on Steam to be good.

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acomjean ◴[04 Aug 23 03:10 UTC] No.36995056[source]▶
The issue kinda is on Linux we’re playing windows games. There is significant work done by valve on that proton compatability layer, so a lot of people on Linux want to support that. Without that us Linux users have a lot harder time gaming.

There are some other launchers for epic games and gog (heroic game launcher I’ve used). It worked for me for a the couple games I tried (gloomhaven and disco elysium) but I’m using the proton wine I which I think was put out there by valve/steam.

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1. 29athrowaway ◴[04 Aug 23 04:56 UTC] No.36995643[source]▶
Among the most played games, many of them run natively on Linux.

https://www.protondb.com/explore

Some games on the list are kind of old, sure. But they're the most played nevertheless.

And from the ones that are not native, many of them run well on Proton.

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2. dizhn ◴[04 Aug 23 08:05 UTC] No.36996915[source]▶
> Among the most played games, many of them run natively on Linux.

Those are the games they would try to get working first. I am not saying this as a counterpoint but a different reading of the same thing.