Oh yeah, don't mean to minimize all the community effort over the years, but for a tech moron like myself being able to just check a box in steam and have everything work is great. In the past I had tried to use wine with little success and would always spend way more time tinkering than actually playing anything so the only games I would play on linux were the few with native support. Same kind of thing used to be my main hangup with linux in general due to everything being just a bit too difficult to be worth it, but yeah now it's just easy as hell to get set up with everything I use a computer for.
Oh yeah, don’t mean to minimize all the community effort over the years
I know ! just trying to convey how incredible it seems after decades of steady progress. I was on Linux when basically the two only mainstream native games available on it were Neverwinter Nights 1 and Doom 3. That was it. Wine was hit or miss, almost only worked for very old games, and using it meant having to compile it and patch it yourself, and spend hours to make a game work. We've come a long long way and it's awesome.
Oh yeah, don't mean to minimize all the community effort over the years, but for a tech moron like myself being able to just check a box in steam and have everything work is great. In the past I had tried to use wine with little success and would always spend way more time tinkering than actually playing anything so the only games I would play on linux were the few with native support. Same kind of thing used to be my main hangup with linux in general due to everything being just a bit too difficult to be worth it, but yeah now it's just easy as hell to get set up with everything I use a computer for.
I know ! just trying to convey how incredible it seems after decades of steady progress. I was on Linux when basically the two only mainstream native games available on it were Neverwinter Nights 1 and Doom 3. That was it. Wine was hit or miss, almost only worked for very old games, and using it meant having to compile it and patch it yourself, and spend hours to make a game work. We've come a long long way and it's awesome.
Yeah it really is great. :rat-salute: to you and all the other contributors over the years!