Linux Scores A Surprising Gaming Victory Against Windows 11

sometimes i still can't believe i'm running every game i want on linux. like its still surprising and surreal to me.

thanks to all the contributors that made it possible for us to ditch microsoft.

When I started using linux 15 years ago, my friend recommended to keep a windows partition for gaming. At least for me, I have deleted windows a few years ago and I'm not looking back.

Suprised that forbes is reporting about linux

It's just easier to get old windows games running on Linux.

I think it says a lot more about how much recent versions of Windows have bogged down the whole gaming experience.

Microsoft seems to have forgotten that people want an operating system that works, not something bloated with bullshit like telemetry, advertisements, tracking cookies and artificial intelligence. The only reason they even have a market lead in the desktop space is due to marketing and monopolistic practices.

Im so glad I fully switched to Linux. I was amazed how good the gaming performance have come nowadays. I tried out Ubuntu back in 2007 and have tried some other distros too during the years, but always went back to Windows because of games. Not anymore.

What I'm still missing unfortunately is how seemingly all modern online games require stupid kernel level anti-cheats that don't work on Linux.

I'm more surprised by the ease of use than the performance, honestly.

Oh, the article is written by Jason Evanghelo. Of course, he’s a giant Linux shill working at Forbes :D

Still great to see such press

Aw, I can't get cyberpunk to run on my mint install - it gets the logos and stops responding.

Some people read about performance, sometimes I'm just motivated knowing someone on the internet did get a game running in the first instance! :)

I will say though, Baldurs Gate 3 works perfectly, as does anything else I throw at it! :)

Sometimes i feel weird and impressed with Microsoft that allow third party to create windows emulation system that beat original windows in many ways

Fun fact: With those 4 games it looks like a tie, but weighed by Steam scores, Linux wins. (Warhammer has like 3/5).

(Disclaimer: I have never played any of those 4 games and don't plan to in a forseeable future. I also realize full well how ridiculously insignificant a sample of 4 is.)

If only we had a fix for the crazy performance discrepancy that pops up when running DX12 + RTX titles!

A1RM4X - DirectX 12 and ray tracing are broken on Linux? Wukong benchmarks results - Windows vs Linux

Btw, anyone got the newest reshade to work? Even with the reshade-linux script, they just don't load, no matter which game. I had 4.something working for the longest time but since 5, nothing.

I just wish many of the multiplayer games I play worked on Linux (invasive anti-cheat).

Surprising?

But you still can't play Roblox on it.

Or a ton of indie games on Steam.

Ok cool now make a distro that handles my peripherals. Oh that's not happening? Ok, fuck linux.

I'm gonna get specific here, but show me WoW on Linux or GTFO. It's the only game I really play (wz2100 and zero-k too but no more shooters), and while I'm just a casual scrub the old folks and the kids get together for some chatter and splatter and it's really great.

I don't want my account blocked for false-positive on the cheat detector or something, so that's really my blocker for going fedora on the desktop.

Edit: -18? Guess us casual wow people don't count? :-. I just wanna ride dragons, man.