In 2023, I had 97% Linux with the only Windows games being Skyrim and Fallout 4 because of modding.
Now that I got modding to work on Linux I resolved to have 100% playtime on Linux for 2024. But Steam Replay says nothing because its still only one device :(.
Gaben, throw us a bone here pls.
I don't even have Steam on my Windows install as all my games work fine on Linux. Honestly I should probably just uninstall Windows at this point, I don't think I've used it in months.
I still have Windows but haven't logged in in over a year. I use Bottles for all non-Steam apps.
Does Bottles work well with, say, Photoshop or Autodesk Fusion?
Your best bet for finding compatibility with WINE (and by extension Bottles, because that's what it uses) is through their AppDB:
Here is the page for Photoshop (and all its different versions) and here is the page for Fusion 360 (or rather, a version of it being developed to work with WINE)
As with many things WINE, the answer is "it depends" (silver is workable, but still has very significant flaws). You can always try it out yourself, and I recommend walking through the HowTos that people post in the listings and the known bugs. The two programs you asked about are particularly difficult, as they are incredibly complex and use many libraries that are specific to only their own application, meaning their implementation in WINE is not priority (WINE tries to be as compatible as possible, targeting the broadest stuff first before gradually narrowing). Most programs "just work" through WINE, but these two in particular have been struggles to get working for years. Development is always happening, so I recommend to try it out if you're curious if it'll work for you. And if not, perhaps it will be better in a couple years.
The token recommendation for apps that don't work through WINE is to try to find alternatives that play nicer. After all, supporting the anticompetitive business practices of Adobe or Autodesk spits in the face of Linux and the libre software movement as a whole. If you are able to reasonably find alternatives, then that would be ideal, but I find that recommendation quite naïve. As an alternative, you can run Windows in a VM from Linux, or you could dual boot if you only need to use these programs occasionally.
Bottles is really just a frontend for WINE with some extra features baked into the GUI to make the experience better for the end user. Compatibility in Bottles will still be determined by the compatibility a program has through WINE.
Don't know because I don't use those, you will have to try and see.
I fon't think I've used it in months.
Good luck with all those updates flooding in.
Could be worse. It could be the other way round with an Arch install.
Darn it, phone keyboard strikes again. :)
8Vim keyboard.
I use it when I'm drunk or in a bumpy car ride.
And even if you'd use it, everything I know off - except games - run fine in a VM.
thats how i noticed i could move it into a VM for the odd thing or two i would use it for every once in a blood moon
Don't seek validation from corporations.
I hate this cat meme. I think that cat has untreated eye infections.
Its just a photoshop of the serious cat meme, no cats were harmed in the making of this meme... probably
Thank you. I feel so much better now.
This cat needs some teeth
This just looks cursed to me now
Well it's photoshopped with an image of a different cat with a probable eye infection. Not a lot better.
My cat looked like this when I'd cut onions. He was strongly affected by it and it would look like he was crying.
I switched to Linux after the Recall junk, and one drive kept trying to sync my files when the PC was idle. (One drive was disabled!!!!)
It’s weird that the graph does not show my steam deck at all. I got it around launch, then got my wife one too. Now she runs Linux on her computer too.
Google photos on Android keeps syncing my images even when it was disabled. You can't trust these guys.
one drive kept trying to sync my files when the PC was idle. (One drive was disabled!!!!)
Welcome to Windows. Basically the entire operating system is malware at this point.
Here is mine.
Based
First year without Windows on the chart 😅
it's impressive you managed to make the second one look like the steam deck logo
Mine says 99% Steam Deck and 1% Linux, which is weird considering they're the same thing.
But probably 50% was on my desktop, which also shows up as Steam Deck under Bazzite.
All 12 of us.
Next year, play on a generic desktop Linux distribution as well as Steam Deck. They'll show up as distinct platforms:
Steam Deck is not available in my country :/
There is expected to be an announcement at CES that Valve is partnering to bring other vendors into making SteamOS handhelds, so you likely will get your chance at something soon.
Being able to mod Skyrim on Linux was the final nail in Window's coffin for me too! Haven't found a game that doesn't work...even anti-cheat games like Elden Ring work flawlessly with Proton.
Hey. I just got my first 10h in Skyrim :) Took a bit of tinkering until I found a process that works nicely (Vortex via SteamTinker). How do you manage your mods?
i doubt it says anything if you played 100% on windows
Its funny that only people who didnt play 100% of games on linux(excluding steamdeck) can make posts about how much they played on linux
Ooh, the secretest of achievements! So secret, even QA missed it!
I'll have to try for that in 2025. Gonna be wiping Windows over Christmas.
100% on Steam Deck. No pie charts for me 😒
Just a circle is technically a pie chart.
There’s no circle. The graph simply doesn’t display if there’s only one category. That’s how it was for me too when I was 100% Steam Deck.
I have no idea what's showing it or why it detects like that. I just meant mathematically speaking.
Nope, it’s a pie.
Anyone know if Bazzite counts as Steam Deck or Linux as it uses Big Picture Mode by default?
Also if you run Windows or Bazzite on a Steam Deck does that count as Steam Deck or just Windows and Linux?
Bazzite counts as a Steam Deck when you're playing in Steam mode, Linux when in desktop mode.
Is that the same on SteamOS?
It counts Bazzite as SteamOS.
Spending hours into a game is not the flex you think it is
Let people have fun
Why not?
Spending the whole year gaming exclusively on Linux is.
Well damn. Between Android gaming and Steam Deck, I guess I did, too.
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