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Most games don't run on Linux and that's why I'm stuck on Windows
Dude, I run Star Citizen on my Debian.
The days of Windows games not running on Linux are clearly over.
Because of DXVK and others the games sometimes even outperform when being run on Linux+Wine than running on native Windows.
Just look at Steam Proton and how few Windows games are not supported to run under Linux.
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 proportion 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.
This seems a little exaggerated. For example, over 10k games are Steam Deck playable/verified.
Of the 70k games available on Steam ...
That is 14%.
Better than before, but still a long way.
So not an exaggeration at all.
Just because they haven't been checked yet doesn't mean they won't run. About 75% of the games that were tested were compatible with the Steam Deck. Also, all emulators work on Linux too and sometimes even better than on Windows. The number of games that are available to you on Linux is simply massive.