It is great that you can play some games, and it is improving. But Linux has a LOOONG way to go before you can say that “Windows games not running on Linux are clearly over”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that page exclusively for games with native Linux builds? When people talk highly of Linux gaming these days it’s because of the work that’s gone into Proton, a compatibility layer for Windows games on Linux. You can play a large portion of Windows native games on Linux with minimal fuss now.
Are these numbers only the Linux native ones or including the ones that run using Proton?
In any case, those are the ones that are officially supported, e.g. the ones Steam promises you those are working (or probably only the native).
You can, however, enable Proton for any game or application and you will find out most of them run without problems.
“Control” for example works flawlessy, even with DX12 RTX raytracing, using Wine, alas, it’s not shown on Steam for having Linux support and is also not in the list.
So the numbers are probably waaay too low and games that work with Linux support much much higher.
Lets look at some statistics shall we?
Steam has 10436 Linux compatible games. https://store.steampowered.com/linux
Steam has 70848 Windows compatible games. https://store.steampowered.com/games/
It is great that you can play some games, and it is improving. But Linux has a LOOONG way to go before you can say that “Windows games not running on Linux are clearly over”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that page exclusively for games with native Linux builds? When people talk highly of Linux gaming these days it’s because of the work that’s gone into Proton, a compatibility layer for Windows games on Linux. You can play a large portion of Windows native games on Linux with minimal fuss now.
Are these numbers only the Linux native ones or including the ones that run using Proton?
In any case, those are the ones that are officially supported, e.g. the ones Steam promises you those are working (or probably only the native).
You can, however, enable Proton for any game or application and you will find out most of them run without problems.
“Control” for example works flawlessy, even with DX12 RTX raytracing, using Wine, alas, it’s not shown on Steam for having Linux support and is also not in the list.
So the numbers are probably waaay too low and games that work with Linux support much much higher.