Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching
Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching
Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 support will end in a few months, meaning nearly half of Steam users will be forced to upgrade.
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I've been meaning to get a Linux VM spun up for testing games. I gather that I'll have some issues (i.e. blockers) with multi-player games and cheat-prevention, but I'd just as soon play single player games anyway.
I've been a Linux/Unix admin for 25+ years so I've no excuse other than convenience. But I'm done.
I'm sure you know this already, but for anyone who doesn't: If you want to know if a specific game will work under Linux, Proton DB is your friend!
Thanks for posting this, I didn't realise how many of my most played games have issues, or are unplayable, according to Proton DB. I forgot that it was effectively impossible to play a huge number of multiplayer games with anticheat/whatever stuff.
Again though, appreciate it!
That's really unfortunate, but yeah, better to know beforehand.
The really painful part about this is it doesn't need to be this way. A lot of popular anti cheat software supports Linux, but the game devs just don't enable it. GTA is one example of these. It's allegedly just a checkbox that Rockstar won't check.
Out of curiosity, what games are you looking at?
R6 Siege, Apex Legends, PUBG, Insurgency Sandstorm (which seems to be an off/on thing from the descriptions.)
Honestly I migrated to bazzite about a month ago and my entire library has just… worked. It was shockingly easy. I haven’t changed anything from defaults at all.
I'd recommend the other way around; Windows in a VM for the vew games that don't work on Linux.
Kernel anti-cheats won’t (shouldn’t) work in a a VM
Now no one should have those but if someone was smart enough to know that then they would be on Linux already
Wait, really? I only knew VM-detection from malw... oh.