The viability of Linux as a gaming platform has come on leaps and bounds in recent years due to the sterling work of WINE and Proton developers, among others, and interest in hardware like the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/steam-deck-oled” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/steam-deck-oled”>Steam Deck. However, the most recent stats from data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.protondb.com/dashboard” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.protondb.com/dashboard” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>ProtonDB (via data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://boilingsteam.com/windows-games-compatibility-on-linux-is-at-a-all-time-high/” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://boilingsteam.com/windows-games-compatibility-on-linux-is-at-a-all-time-high/” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>Boiling Steam) highlight that we are edging towards a magnificent milestone. The latest distilled data shows that almost 90% of Windows games now run on Linux.
Having nine in ten Windows games accessible in a new data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/ive-been-using-linux-for-a-quarter-of-a-century-so-why-do-i-keep-coming-back-to-ubuntu” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/ive-been-using-linux-for-a-quarter-of-a-century-so-why-do-i-keep-coming-back-to-ubuntu”>Linux install is quite an achievement….
