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Saoshyantyesterday at 12:04 PM2 repliesview on HN

Yes. Valve (Steam) spent more than a decade building and refining a translation layer called Proton. Nearly 80% of the vast Steam library is now compatible with Linux to the point they are releasing actual Linux consoles (Steam Deck and Steam Machine).

For your regular PC, you can install a gaming-focused distribution like Bazzite to get everything sorted out automatically.


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anthkyesterday at 12:44 PM

Building, no. Refining Wine, yes.

IshKebabyesterday at 12:44 PM

80% is really impressive, but another way to state it is that 20% of the games you try won't work. I don't think I'd put up with that if I was a gamer. I guess maybe it's not evenly distributed. Do a higher percentage of the most popular games work?

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