thanks to Windows Subsystem for Linux windows desktops are also secretly Linux desktops now. victory achieve

is it the best linux

All jokes aside, have you tried Steam Proton? I don't think there'll ever be a "year of the Linux desktop" but wow I can play so many games on Linux now

What about Luigi? Don't you think it's his time to shine? I say 2021 is the year of Luigi

It's a Linux and it's on many desktops

Every year is the year of Luigi

Proton is pretty good, it usually requires at least one random setting change for each game I have tried on it to launch tho; like add a command line argument to the launcher type stuff.

That's not that hard to do but for people who don't know computers that well it is kind of a high bar to entry.

or for people who like... know how but are just tired and want to play games instead of fiddling with settings (aka me)

Ah is this the case? Unfortunate :(

I've not had this experience, but I've not played many games with Proton. Primarily just Project Winter and Stardew Valley, both of which worked perfectly with no setup whatsoever.

Perhaps it can be remedied with some kind of community-built settings database, a-la the Steam Controller?

There's protondb which is pretty similar to winedb that usually tells you what you need to do to get games working; Maybe I have just had the bad luck of picking games that don't work directly out of the box i'm not sure; but in one case (civ 5) i had to add a command line arg, and another game I had to add an LD_LIBRARY_PATH entry to get it to work on my machine.

Could also be that i'm running on arch which isn't officially supported, maybe if you stick with things like ubuntu it works better. Nevertheless, it usually has involved some fiddling for me, but once you get it to launch it's been pretty reliable.

Ahhh that makes sense, I am indeed using Ubuntu.

But, looking at the top playercount list, it seems I'm just lucky with the games I choose ;o!

https://www.protondb.com/explore?page=0&sort=playerCount