I've found that Linux enthusiasts have a tendency when they're writing tutorials to assume that you know a bunch of things that you don't necessarily know. Once you learn those things and get everything set up, it is indeed very easy as the other commenters said to run games on Linux (and in my limited experience, the games I've run through Wine and Proton generally run better than they did on Windows), but it's disingenuous to act like there isn't a knowledge wall you have to get over first. Expect to spend at least a couple days fucking with things until you get the hang of it.
Anyway Lutris is a magical program that will put all of your games from Steam, Epic, GoG, Itch etc into one place and make running them either work out of the box or at the very least make adjusting the settings to get them to work very fast and easy.
This was my issue but I've had almost 0 issue. Big games like elden ring to little indies run fine for me. Only time blot windows is to play Halo with friends. As mentioned really the only issue might be multiplayer but that's a case by case basis.
To add to this, if you're not a power user and don't want to ever touch a CLI window, Steam makes it super duper easy to play games that don't have native Linux versions.
You just enable Steam Play, and in my experience, around two thirds of games without a native Linux binary will launch without a single problem, it just works (often with better performance than Windows). Which means, like 80-90% total of my Steam games will just launch without so much as a twiddle from me. Sadly there are still a few modern games that I still can't get running, but they are few (and proton gets better every year).
Can I play video games on Leenucks?
I've found that Linux enthusiasts have a tendency when they're writing tutorials to assume that you know a bunch of things that you don't necessarily know. Once you learn those things and get everything set up, it is indeed very easy as the other commenters said to run games on Linux (and in my limited experience, the games I've run through Wine and Proton generally run better than they did on Windows), but it's disingenuous to act like there isn't a knowledge wall you have to get over first. Expect to spend at least a couple days fucking with things until you get the hang of it.
Anyway Lutris is a magical program that will put all of your games from Steam, Epic, GoG, Itch etc into one place and make running them either work out of the box or at the very least make adjusting the settings to get them to work very fast and easy.
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This was my issue but I've had almost 0 issue. Big games like elden ring to little indies run fine for me. Only time blot windows is to play Halo with friends. As mentioned really the only issue might be multiplayer but that's a case by case basis.
You can't play every game because some only support Windows/Mac, but yes, Steam has a lot of games that have native Linux versions. For those games without Linux versions, the Windows version will sometimes work on Linux.
To add to this, if you're not a power user and don't want to ever touch a CLI window, Steam makes it super duper easy to play games that don't have native Linux versions.
You just enable Steam Play, and in my experience, around two thirds of games without a native Linux binary will launch without a single problem, it just works (often with better performance than Windows). Which means, like 80-90% total of my Steam games will just launch without so much as a twiddle from me. Sadly there are still a few modern games that I still can't get running, but they are few (and proton gets better every year).
No :gamer-gulag: :stalin-gun-1: :tux: