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There are still excuses.
I love gaming on my Steam Deck, but I'm not ready to make that PC switch yet because I don't have the time anymore to sit and fuck around trying to get a game to run.
That chart means nothing if all the games you play work fine. I have tons of hours on MH Wilds for example and that's the only game where I had to do tinkering in the last 3 years, but we all know that wasn't a OS specific issue right? PoE 2 crashed in Vulkan for the first week, worked fine on dx12. Now works fine on Vulkan and I'm having a much better experience than some of my buddies on windows with game crashes.
I would track the performance of your games instead of the overall.
Protondb has a lot of old information on its thats not relevant anymore thanks to updated proton releases.
So there are a lot of games that suggest tweaks/tinkering that dont need it anymore... but people like me(random idiots that don't have IT/Sysadmin experience to know everything about linux) still might do, because the reviews from 18 months ago say its necessary, because there arent many reviews and the one from 18 months ago is still only like 5 places down from the top.
So polls like that should be taken with a heavy grain.
That's interesting, is there a way to filter only on "new reviews"? Actually, I'd expect protondb to already be doing that, given that you have to specify which proton you're using when rating the game
On a game’s page, it orders them by most-recent first. There’s also a filter query field at the top, but I’m not sure what the syntax for it is and I can’t seem to find information on that, but at least you’ll automatically see the newest ones first.
And if you play popular MOBAs then Windows is it.
Im okay with keeping moba players, fortnite and roblox people, and kernel level anticheat gamers off of linux if it means compromising on Linux's part :)
What MOBAs other than League of Legends are incompatible with Linux?
Nah, Dota runs natively on Linux. And no other MOBAs exist, amiright.