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I got average monthly ratings for games on Wine AppDB, and seems like something happened in 2016. (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by akash_rawal@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[+] doodledup@lemmy.world -62 points 3 months ago (20 children)

Delusional.

I've been using Linux for over 10 years for work and dev. But for gaming it's still absolute dogshit. You need to constantly tinker to get shit to work.

Even Minecraft, which is just Java, runs at 20% less FPS than on Windows, constant stutters and screen tearing that Vsync won't fix.
And then there is all of the RTX raytraced games that are broken or have considerably worse performance. - What about 5.1 surround speakers that work out of the box but will not work on Linux. I tried every driver and every tinker. So I can basically enjoy my game without sound, because my Razer headset also won't connect automatically on boot. I have to unplug the dongle every single time.
Ah yes, forgot about all of the Anticheat games. Nope, stop blaming it on the game devs. As an end-user, I don't care about that.
Then what about my Logitec mouse and keyboard and Corsair RGB? Can't configure that either.

So this basically leaves me with half of my game library than on Windows, half of my gaming hardware, no sound, and a worse performance even in Minecraft.

Everyone who says Linux is a viable alternative as a daily driver for things other than software dev or sys admin is just delusional.

[–] amstafff@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Skill issue

[–] doodledup@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago

How is skill related to booting up an OS and launching a game? That should not require skill.

Besides, I'm probably more skillful with Linux. I could probably fix all of these issues. I just won't. It's much faster booting into Windows.

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