My gaming with WoW Classic is regularly crashing. OK, it’s not a Verified game. My gaming with Cyberpunk 2077 in desktop mode still has the audio cracking problem.
But it’s still the best electronic device I have ever bought.
Yet still people will find reason to complain.
80% of my catalog is platinum and gold, 20% I probably wasn’t going to play anyways.
I mean if someone is addicted to only playing one really specific MMO or MOBA and it’s not available on Linux I kinda get it. But if you’re the sort of person who enjoys lots of games, not just one, then there’s really no excuse at this point for sticking with Windows
i always wonder if you include the older titles that just don’t work anymore on modern windows but work fine on proton. i wonder what a windows user library percentage wouldn’t be. I knows it would not be 100%. It seems they always forget those when windows users complain about Linux/proton compatability.
My hazardous guess would be that their average percentages are the same, but the era is where it would differ. Linux compatibility for newer titles is where Linux is lacking, but the support for older titles is pretty fully fledged.
Likewise, Microsofts compatibility with older titles is pretty abysmal but is probably comparable to compatibility with newer titles on Linux.
That said, over time I have a feeling MS will continue to go down and Linux will continue to go up.
That actually came up in some of the early ROG Ally reviews. Some reviewers found that old steam games wouldn’t run on it, but they would run on the steam deck.
It’s a nice way of seeing which games can boot up, but using it as way to gauge if its a “great experience” is one I don’t think is accurate.
I think this is a misconception many have. Somewhere in an intereview or an article Valve stated and explained the Verified program is not about how well a game runs on Steam Deck, but a checkmark of a few important points. Even if the game runs badly, it might be verified. The reasoning and greater idea is not how well it runs on this specific hardware, but compared to the Windows counterpart. Meaning if the game runs 20 fps on Windows, and it runs exactly the same on Linux with Proton, then it is verified. Now you can argue and disagree, that is fine. But I think that was the goal of Valve with this verification process.
Steam Deck verification includes things like text being legible and buttons showing up correctly in prompts and mapping, etc. For example, Civilization VI has a Linux native version but is not verified because some game text is too small, and it might require some typing using the virtual keyboard which may not pop up automatically when required.
Shit, I better get cracking.
