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80% of Steam's top 100 games now work on Linux (www.neowin.net)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

This is definitely good news! But when I tried some games on Linux, they simply doesn't run as smoothly compared to Windows on same hardware. Some even required fiddling :(

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I had the opposite experience. Games that worked only after shady DLL replacements and third party mods, and barely at that, worked at one click on GNU/Linux for me.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I will interject for a moment to say that what you are referring to as GNU/Linux, is now GNU/Steam/Linux. Steam is an integral part of Linux that allows games and other non native applications to be ran natively without virtualisation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Steam is a monolithic kernel for the GNU/Linux operating system.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 years ago

Linux is now just a shell, and GNU a bunch of Qt programs. Steam is the real deal.