Valve have released the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for March 2025, and as expected with the Simplified Chinese language dropping the Linux stats have shot back up.
Have you tried using proton yet? I know it’s not the same as games them native, but the compatibility list is growing pretty quick, it’s probably better than 10%.
What games do you have? Most of my games work great with steams proton.
Only some multiplayer games with some anticheat are not supported. I think from my ~260 Games +90% are working
Check out protondb.com
It’s truly a non-issue, unless we’re talking competitive multiplayer games. The only single player game I can think of that I’ve had Linux-related problems with since I switched my desktop over a couple years ago has been the new Indiana Jones game, and that was patched within a week of launch. Proton makes it brain-dead easy. I have a pretty big library and not many games have official support, but they just work with Proton. I don’t do any tinkering with custom proton builds or anything either. On a fresh Steam install, you have to go into settings once to enable Proton in games that haven’t been tested with it, but then you just forget about it and play like you would on Windows.
Have you checked recently? I like to use ProtonDB. Unless you only play games with kernel-level anti-cheat, most of your games should run fine with Steam’s built-in Proton compatibility tool. I rarely find a game I cannot play.
The only thing stopping me from migrating is 90% of my Steam library isn’t available on Linux. I’m stuck on Windows for my main
Edit: Thank you everyone! Last time I checked was about 6 months ago, I didn’t give Proton a proper shot and I will be glad to migrate fully!
Have you tried using proton yet? I know it’s not the same as games them native, but the compatibility list is growing pretty quick, it’s probably better than 10%.
https://www.protondb.com/
What games do you have? Most of my games work great with steams proton. Only some multiplayer games with some anticheat are not supported. I think from my ~260 Games +90% are working Check out protondb.com
It’s truly a non-issue, unless we’re talking competitive multiplayer games. The only single player game I can think of that I’ve had Linux-related problems with since I switched my desktop over a couple years ago has been the new Indiana Jones game, and that was patched within a week of launch. Proton makes it brain-dead easy. I have a pretty big library and not many games have official support, but they just work with Proton. I don’t do any tinkering with custom proton builds or anything either. On a fresh Steam install, you have to go into settings once to enable Proton in games that haven’t been tested with it, but then you just forget about it and play like you would on Windows.
Thank you! I’ll give it a proper shot, including enabling that setting. So good to know :)
Have you checked recently? I like to use ProtonDB. Unless you only play games with kernel-level anti-cheat, most of your games should run fine with Steam’s built-in Proton compatibility tool. I rarely find a game I cannot play.
Unless 90% of your games use kernel ac, I don’t really know what kind of games you’re playing
That seems high. I’ve got >500 games on steam and I know for sure I’ve got well over 10% that will work.
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Then just use Windows. Right tool for the right job.
Sure, if the “job” is spying and the “tool” is the user.