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Does a game "run on Linux" when it has 100% feature parity? 90%? 80%? What are you willing to cut? Some performance? A few graphical effects? Multiplayer? When
by greener_grass 8mo ago
Does a game "run on Linux" when it has 100% feature parity? 90%? 80%? What are you willing to cut? Some performance? A few graphical effects? Multiplayer?
When you look at the details, Linux gaming is not as good as it might seem.
But I'm still gaming on Linux!
- seanw444 8mo agoWhat you sacrifice in feature parity, you gain in user freedom and principle. To me, that is a worthwhile tradeoff. Especially since it's really not that much different at this point. You're not sacrificing much in most cases now. It's really quite remarkable.
- jama211 8mo agoFreedom to not play the games your friends are playing, without you.
- Zambyte 8mo agoI can't remember the last time a game did anything other than run (this is with only trying games that have been documented to work). I think the worst I've had is audio not working in cut scenes in some game, but I don't remember what game it was.
- greener_grass 8mo agoAge of Empires II is very popular but doesn't have multiplayer support on Linux.