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[–] racemaniac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 week ago (30 children)

And how many run on linux via a well documented way?

I've been playing around with bazzite a bit, and for sure, i can run a lot of games on it, but you often end up googling which launcher to use, which settings to use, ... And then even if you find something, it doesn't always work.

Linux is making good progress in this regard, but this title feels a bit over optimistic (or at least, users who take it at face value will quickly be disappointed when they can't get 90% of their games to work).

[–] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Please let me know if you find good documentation. I want to make the jump off of windows, but honestly I'm scared it will just cause a ton of frustration

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s very strange.

Most games will just launch, no problems. But then you’ll get one title like the above poster has, that just refuses to launch no matter what you do.

Most of the times there’s a work around on ProtonDB that will get you running in a few minutes. But sometimes it feels like, or is the case, where the developers actively prevent the game from launching on Linux.

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah but the same happens on windows, often times with no way at all to play the title without a VM

[–] Thadrax@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

In my experience that has been extremely rare in recent years (or more like decades now).

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