Too many games are Windows only

Very few are these days with the enormous amount of resources Valve has been pouring into Proton. The only truly Windows-only games I have encountered were online multiplayer with anticheat and that was almost always because the developer chose not to support Linux (e.g. EAC, Rust) and not for lack of support for Linux.

Perhaps that wouldn't happen if more people switched...

	▲	r_lee 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		those are the vast majority of games that people play and people won't switch if there is no way to switch, it's like asking people to go on a hunger strike

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GreenVulpine an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This hasn't been the case for at least half a decade. Most games run perfectly fine if not better on Linux. The only exceptions are purposely broken remote rootkit "anticheat" gsmes which no sane person would want on their system anyway.

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bigfishrunning an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

This is why I own a playstation

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technothrasher an hour ago | parent [-]

Because your PlayStation couldn't possibly be spying on you?

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bigfishrunning an hour ago | parent [-]

Because my playstation spies on my games, not my whole life. It's limitation of scope.

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celsoazevedo an hour ago | parent [-]

I guess for that you could have a Windows machine just for gaming. No need to deal with the trade-offs of that come with using a console (if that matters to you).

	▲	bigfishrunning 31 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Not having a windows machine is one of the benefits of not having a windows machine! Using a console for gaming is cheaper, more secure, and more reliable then using a windows machine. The only downside is i don't have access to the wide ocean of steam and gog releases, but it's a fair trade as far as I'm concerned.
	▲	dspillett 33 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Though that would likely be a bit more expensive, or if cheaper it might be by compromising on GPU performance.