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The fact that gaming on Linux went from "ha ha, very funny" to most games just work and only a few FPS games are not working at all (and most of them doing so on purpose by blocking Proton in anti-cheat rootkits rather than because of just not offically supporting Linux) is a real testement to both Linux rising as a legitimate computing plaform and Valve's work on making Linux a true gaming platform.
Also, thanks to Jason @killyourfm for this nice article BTW! https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2024/08/21/linux-scores-a-surprising-gaming-victory-against-windows-11/
@cameronbosch @killyourfm What I did a few years ago is writing a script to plot progress in gaming via Proton from the official ProtonDB data that was put upstream openly on Github.
https://gitlab.com/TheJackiMonster/protondb-evalute
You can see from about 45% being playable in a decent way in 2019, we have come to around 73% of Windows games being playable now (in about 6 years).
I'm looking forward to the next 6 years if that's the speed we're going.
Oregon Coast Trail @killyourfm@layer8.space@thejackimonster @cameronbosch WHOA! At a glance, this is really valuable (and for me, actionable) data! I'm already picturing an article or two that could utilize this data to paint some very promising pictures of Linux gaming. Mainstream audiences need to see this.
Thank you for your work!
@killyourfm @thejackimonster I agree! That is impressive!
@killyourfm @cameronbosch I usually update the graphs every month the ProtonDB reports get commited upstream. But there's also the trend.csv file under resources which can be used to visualize own graphs.
The big change in gold ratings rather than platinum comes from the Steam Deck launch by the way. Since my scripts convert the new report scheme from ProtonDB to the old rating categories, more critical reports didn't achieve full platinum rating.
@killyourfm @thejackimonster @cameronbosch Jason, I also wonder how many old games have stopped working on modern Windows that keep working with Proton.
@TeamLinux01 @thejackimonster @cameronbosch That would be an interesting exploration, though probably a (fun) rabbit hole I don't personally have time for.
@cameronbosch @killyourfm @TeamLinux01 If there was an open database with games being reported to have issues on Windows and those reports include their Steam-appid, it would be possible to calculate an intersection with ProtonDB.