alt Hacker NewsThat is why I bought a steam deck: to financially support Valve's Linux efforts. I barely play games anymore but thanks to the Wine devs, CodeWeavers, and Valve, I no longer have to listen to the knuckle-draggers claiming that "Linux sucks because it can't play games". In fact, now it is the opposite: Linux is outperforming Windows[0].
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stavros • yesterday at 10:53 PM
I wonder when games will start supporting Linux natively, especially after the Steam Machine is released.
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txdv • yesterday at 9:54 PM
> knuckle-draggers claiming that "Linux sucks because it can't play games"
they still do it because you can't play all the multiplayer games with kernel level anticheats
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tencentshill • yesterday at 8:14 PM
They sold the Deck hardware at a loss, so I hope you've bought several full-price games to play on it since.
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I have a near infinite amount of respect for Wine. It seems like for at least the last twenty years, Wine just keeps getting better and better with every release.
I don’t know for sure, but I suspect a lot of the work is spent sussing out weird edge cases with different binaries. This is tedious, thankless work, but it is necessary to have true Windows compatibility.
Wine and Proton have gotten so good that I don’t bother even checking compatibility before I buy games. The game will likely run just as well or better than on Windows and it is so consistently good that it’s not worth the small effort to check ProtonDB.
I do wish that they would get Office 2024 working on Wine. This isn’t a dig at the Wine devs at all, I am sure that it’s a very hard problem, but if I can get that then I will have even more ammunition to get my parents to drop windows entirely.