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90 percent of all Windows games now also run under Linux. (German) (www.derstandard.at)
submitted 3 weeks ago by tfm@piefed.europe.pub to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/47925046

90 Prozent aller Windows-Spiele laufen mittlerweile auch unter Linux

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[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"All games" type of lists aren't necessarily very useful, considering the amount of shovelware that exists. ProtonDB's Dashboard visualizes the data they have. You can change the category to, for example, "Top 10" or "Top 1000" games measured by peak concurrent players. Out of the Top 10 games, 60% gets a silver or better rating, while out of the Top 1000, 89% gets silver or better.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Is 89% of the top 1000 not good enough to just call it 90% of games?

[–] Winter_Oven@piefed.social 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not the one you replied to, but I would like to say that you make a solid point, it is good enough to say 90% of games.

Buuuut I would prefer being told 89% of top 1000 instead.

[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 weeks ago

I’d say there’s a big difference between “90% of all games” and “90% of top 1000”. 90% of all games might be playable but if the top 1000 are unplayable, that’s not very good.

[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I guess I just wanted to add a couple data points to the discussion. One is that even though the article is about "all games", it so happens that "top 1000 games" (measured in some way) happen to share the same number. And I didn't want to round it because that would have been a reporting error.

The other point being that out of the "top 10 games" (measured in some way), only 6 are playable on Linux. What I didn't say is that one of the other 4 games cannot be played at all. Those are not numbers I want to see. I want all top 10 games to be playable.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

That's fair. Honestly, the only games in my experience that don't run on Linux have been artificially crippled with anticheat; I even play some old ones that don't even run on windows anymore 😂