alt Hacker NewsDo the top sellers from the past year work on Linux?
I've been meaning to set up Bazzite on an older desktop.
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Macha • yesterday at 4:07 PM
From Steam’s 2025 top X charts (https://store.steampowered.com/charts/bestofyear/2025?tab=3)
11/12 top selling new releases (the exception is battlefield 6, because the anticheat blocks Linux)
9/12 top selling (COD, BF6 and Apex block Linux)
11/12 most played (Apex blocks Linux)
So if you’re into competitive ranked games (especially fps), you might face problems due to anti cheat blocks, but practically everything else works
Basically all games work, except some multiplayer games with kernel anticheat. You can look up the status of games here:
https://www.protondb.com/
And specifically the state of multiplayer games with anticheat here (which is a much less favorable % of working games):
https://areweanticheatyet.com/
I personally wouldn't install any kernel anticheat on a computer that I intend to use for anything important, so I would personally refuse to install the incompatible games even if I was using windows.