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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
&gt;I have a steam deck and I'm legit trying to think if I have played any triple AAA game more recent than 5 years old on it.

I played Cyberpunk 2077 on it. The experience wasn't great, but then again, it wasn't great on Xbox or Playstation either. Though I did play Cyberpunk 2077 on my Linux PC and the performance is so good in Linux that I can play it at about 30fps on INTEGRATED GRAPHICS.

Now, I'm trying really hard to think of any other AAA game from the last 5 years that I even want to play at all. Not just play on Linux but literally play on anything at all.

I guess Amplitude/SEGA is a AAA publisher these days right? So I played Humankind on Linux recently. Then there's the latest Civilization from Firaxis/2K those guys are AAA I think. The only AAA game on my wishlist is Elden Ring.

Humankind and Civilization 6 both run fine on Linux, and from what I hear Elden Ring actually runs better on Linux than Windows.
gpt
I think it's funny how hard people want to dunk on Linux. It feels like the whole console war dumbness. People have an XBox and want to dunk on Playstation, or if they have a Playstation they want to dunk on XBox. It usually comes down them not being able to afford both. So if you can only afford one, you need to dunk on the other in order to make you feel better about your choice of one over the other.

The hate for Linux I think isn't about not being able to afford a Linux PC, because if you have a Windows PC you can simply dual boot it. I think it comes down to the fact that many of the supposed PC Master Race in this sub, many of them actually don't have much in the way of actual tech skills, and what they do have is limited to Windows. They are tribal to Windows not because they can't afford Linux, but simply because their skills make them feel like they can't have it.

Which was probably true a very few short years ago. But in the last year or so, Linux has come a very long way towards being as easy as Windows to install and use. Every Linux user has their own favorite distro, but for someone coming from Windows, just install Pop OS. It will hold your hand through the entire process and installing anything from their software "storefront" (hard to call it a store when basically everything is free) and you won't ever have to even look at a terminal window. Steam installs from the storefront and then in Steam just tell the game to use Proton and it will run on Linux.

I have about 1,000 games in my Steam library. And every single one of them I have wanted to play so far has just worked. The single exception being Master of Orion 2 (a nearly 30 year old game) which I could probably get to work, but would require installing a Linux version of DOS box instead of the Windows one that comes pre-installed with Steam. But I'll just wait for someone else to script a fix for it since I have so many other games to play. But even that being said, it still requires some tweaking in Windows too.