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Quill7513 ,

What is this info graphic even saying, I don’t understand

hemko ,

Those “medals” are how well the game works on proton. Platinum is comparable to Windows or better, gold is still pretty damn good, and so on.

DarkThoughts ,

Even Gold can be comparable to Windows. Even silver, since a lot of games don't actually work well or at all on Windows anymore. At the same time, Platinum can still mean issues. It's not that black & white comparable when there's so many factors going into it (regardless of the OS).

hemko ,

Yeah of course it’s more nuanced than that, but enough of an explanation for someone who doesn’t know what there’s actually displayed

RandomLegend ,
@RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

And around 70% of all online players are on those missing 2% :D

ReverseModule OP ,
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I mean we have tons of anticheat games working on Linux. More than people realize. Elden Ring, The Finals, Overwatch 2, CS2, Apex Legends, xDefiant and more that I can’t remember right now. It’s not that bad even as a multiplayer gamer. The ones that don’t work R6S, Val, LoL, Fortnite, CoD and Destiny pretty much.

RandomLegend ,
@RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Oh i know we do, i’m on linux since years, but still the biggest titles are not enabled for linux.

Have been playing LoL for an eternity and can’t play it anymore. (couldn’t be happier but that’s not the thing we’re talking about lol)

kittenzrulz123 ,

Basically all the popular multiplayer games, meanwhile Linux gets the scraps.

DarkThoughts ,

No, just the competitive ones. I've played plenty of multiplayer games on Linux without issues.

umbrella ,
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

apex legends is pretty competitive and works great.

its the asshole multiplayer games that wont work.

Evil_Shrubbery ,

Which is a really positive thing.

:D

Prandom_returns ,

Yeah, quantity over quality right here. If my favourite game doesn’t run on Linux, Linux is dead to me. Even if I had 5 favourite games and 1 doesn’t work, it’s still dead.

So for a lot of people it’s either 100% or it might as well not exist.

erwan ,

If a game doesn’t run on Linux I can’t even try it. No risk of it becoming my favorite game!

imPastaSyndrome ,

These metrics mean nothing to me

megopie , (edited )

Proton is steam’s compatibility tool, these “medals” basically indicate how well a game works through it. Platnium and gold mean work without troubleshooting. Silver means a little tinkering with settings. Bronze means it can work with effort, and borked means it just doesn’t work.

So, 84% working with 0 effort, and 11% working with light tinkering.

The post is kind of incomprehensible if you’re not already familiar with proton and the troubleshooting website proton DB.

imPastaSyndrome ,

It’s also not a great metric if you don’t know what games the dude regularly buys especially if they’re already a*nix user

megopie ,

i mean, basically everything works so long as it doesn’t use certain anti cheat systems. But knowing what they play would have been more useful for the sake of discussion.

fushuan ,

Given that league is widely played, that addendum you did is sadly a huge blocker for a lot of people, but because of league and valorant.

megopie , (edited )

yah, it’s a bummer, but most people who play games on PC aren’t playing such tittles. The current online player count for league is about 2.5 million as supposed to the total steam active player count of 25 million. A lot of people play league, but, like, it’s hardly a problem that everyone has.

Faydaikin ,
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I dunno, I haven’t been able to get Subnautica to work for some reason. It’s likely due to the games own spaghetti code barely being functional on the intended OS’s as is…

But it’s a bummer nontheless.

Same goes for XCOM.

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