Between 2022-10-19 and 2022-10-26 there were 33 New Steam games released with Native Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 306 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 10.8 % of total… Continue Reading →
Linux is known for breaking compatibility with old games
Which ones exactly? I recently played the DOOM 3 Linux version and it worked after swapping out LibGL. If you ship Linux game with the Steam or a flatpak runtime they’ll probably run in 10 years still. Whereas you might already run into problems updating Windows 10 to 11…
Try playing some old Loki releases or stuff like UT2004. Sure, there might be work-arounds, but the likelihood to be able to run the original Windows release in WINE with minimal tinkering is much higher.
Which ones exactly? I recently played the DOOM 3 Linux version and it worked after swapping out LibGL. If you ship Linux game with the Steam or a flatpak runtime they’ll probably run in 10 years still. Whereas you might already run into problems updating Windows 10 to 11…
Try playing some old Loki releases or stuff like UT2004. Sure, there might be work-arounds, but the likelihood to be able to run the original Windows release in WINE with minimal tinkering is much higher.