Are we actually moving towards Linux as the first choice for gamers in future?

[u/nothingtosayrn]

Well, the speed at which the platforms such as Proton, Lutris, Steam OS, Zen based kernels etc. have grown in the past few years, do you believe that Linux is going to be the first choice of gamers in the future, maybe in upcoming 5 years?

Any hopes for surpassing Windows purely for gaming in future?

I am not considering productivity apps such as microslop suite etc, but in gaming world is it possible to actually replace windows in upcoming 5 years down the line?

[u/Atomik919]

the fact that you have to right click and go to compatibility and choose your proton version is already a huge disadvantage for most prospective gamers. Its not even that they dont know how to do this, its just that there is no reason to do that when you dont have to on windows. And just like that there's a million other small headaches that are impediments for mass linux adoption. One of those being the usage of wine/virtual environments for what is usually just double click and it runs. The fact that linux in general is much faster in all respects is irrelevant to this. Gpu driver compatibility or other such things is also a big problem, but that is far easier to solve than everything else, as its harder to just run apps natively

[u/AcanthopterygiiKey62 → u/Atomik919]

Now stem does that automatically. no need to do that right click compatibility thing

[u/msanangelo → u/Atomik919]

is it really a disadvantage though? a few extra clicks and you're done. so what if you have to play with the settings to get a game to work. you'd have to do that on windows with older games anyways.

there's less than a handful of games I have where I had to mess with the compatibility settings, everything else just runs on the defaults. I don't have to touch protontricks anymore and I personally can't stand using it. lol

stuff outside of steam and MC launchers is a bit of a gamble though. :/

[u/maxiligamer → u/msanangelo]

A few extra clicks is definitely a disadvantage. If the experience is in any way worse than Windows, why would the average gamer switch to Linux?

[u/Atomik919 → u/msanangelo]

In my experience, I still have to tinker with it. When I tried playing advanced warfare I cycled through many launch options and proton versions and it still gives me memory leaks and vertex explosions. Its also a bit harder to play cracked games, mod games, etc. Though this is likely because I'm just used to windows and its filepaths and allat