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I took each rating for games on Wine Application Database, mapped them to numbers (Garbage -> 1, Bronze -> 2, Silver -> 3, Gold -> 4, Platinum -> 5) and plotted a monthly average.
Fuck me, I guess - All the fun I've had the last two years wasn't actually real? I only thought I was having a good time? Why didn't you tell me back then so I could have been appropriately miserable!
I've got an RTX 3060 with a Ryzen 5 5600X, running Nobara as my sole OS and I'm playing plenty of games just fine. I can't say that I've ever had to do any tinkering to get BG3 to run, and when I recently decided to replay AC Odyssey, it ran smoothly out of the box.
Granted, sound issues can be annoying, but it's not like there are no guides for setting up 5.1 with pulseaudio or pipewire. Yes, it's some tinkering, and I agree that it would be nice if it ran out of the box.
But if plenty of people around you have theirs working fine, calling them all delusional because yours doesn't is kinda stupid.
"Could it be that I'm doing something wrong? No, it's the linux gamers that are wrong!"
Don't @ me too hard, but I think @luciferofastora has some good points on sound and anti-cheat. They don't affect me, mostly because I don't like PVP games that need anti-cheat, but they represent a huge chunk of the market and I do wish they worked better on Linux. I'm fully on Linux for my daily driver and generally have good experiences, I'm not even considering going back to Windows, I just wish things worked better for everyone.
Anti-Cheat is a bitch, special sound setups not working out of the box is a shame, and it certainly isn't a complete replacement for all use cases.
But the performance issues are definitely not universal, and claiming that anyone who uses it as daily driver is delusional overshoots the mark of criticism and into pointless insults.
Seriously, I don't know how this one is solvable, to be honest, without major investment and support from the game companies themselves.
Agreed!
AFAIK there is support for EAC in Proton now, as that was required for Elden Ring. But there probably is some work to do still on the devs' part, and if they're not willing to invest that time for what so far is still a niche...
It's a bit of a self-perpetuating problem, like all cases of platform inertia: People are reluctant to switch, so unless the draw to the alternative becomes strong enough, they're more likely to stay. But for the alternative to become appealing, more people would need to switch.
It's the same reason many people aren't leaving Twatter: If you want to reach many people, you'll want to be in the place with many people.