Quoting: Purple Library GuyBasically, it seems like in the course of a couple of years, Linux gaming has gone from ridiculously marginal to vague parity with Mac. That's hard to believe when I think about it.

Don't forget how ridiculously marginal Mac also was. Steam supported mac at 2010. At 2013 mac was already something but far behind from where is Linux now. Linux has done in 2 years about the same mac done in 5. Linux is still behind but mac had an head start and is also ridiculously expanding.

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Although these numbers do not tell about "quality" if we search the tags, WORST tags for linux are:

Massively Multiplayer 39/280
linux first on "relevance" are:
ARK: Survival Evolved
War Thunder
Robocraft
Star Conflict
Day of Defeat: Source

windows:
Naval Action
ARK: Survival Evolved
Warframe
H1Z1
War Thunder

Racing: 49/322
linux:
Distance
Audiosurf 2
Action Henk
Absolute Drift
Road Redemption

windows:
Rocket League
Grand Theft Auto V
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
DiRT Rally
Sonic Adventure 2

Sports: 40/281
linux:
Football Manager 2016
Lethal League
Out of the Park Baseball 16
Absolute Drift
ACE Academy

windows:
Rocket League
Football Manager 2016
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
DiRT Rally
NBA 2K16

Actually not that bad except Racing. The only genre that linux is really bad right now is racing.

from the above, the game that will help most on this comparison are
Rocket League (is on the way!)

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These days I am playing Ultimate General: Gettysburg.

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one small detail. It is not a "free game", it is a "free to play game".

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I use wine to run LackeyCCG. The previous month I ticked the I did use wine box because of this but this month I considered that it was more right to tick "no" because it is not a windows purchase for wine.

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about the open source thing, My personal answer is that I have priorities. Open standards are often way more important than Linux. Linux (as an open source kernel) is more important than open source drivers. Open source drivers are way more important than open source game engines. And open source game engine is more important than open source games. Although everything open source we should support, I do not see any point to fight against closed source games or game engines, and although we should be a bit more against closed source drivers, it is still less vital than other things.

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Quoting: Madeanaccounttocomment

Quoting: LiamSounds like Vulkan is genuinely close now, so I expect to see it in January.

Poor deluded Liam. My bets are late February at the earliest.

my bets are on middle march on gdc.

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This month I answered "yes" for wine. But it was only for LackeyCCG...

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I am mostly playing:
Race the Sun (where only touch three clouds achievement remains)

Currently also playing:
Grim Fandango

And recently played:
The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 (finished)

Less recently:
Anodyne (finished)
Broken Sword 5 (finished)
VVVVVV (finished, but not going to do hard achievements)
Don't Starve (really nice, want to play more)
Rogue Legacy (finished)
Papers Please
Shadowgate (I will continue later...)
Splice
Deponia: The complete journey (finished)
SteamWorld Dig (finished)
The Cave (finished, but do not remember if done all characters)
Journey of a Roach (finished)
BattleBlock Theater (really nice, want to play more)
Kingdom Rush (finished on normal)
Escape Goat 2 (finished)

and many more... (but even less recently)
Some games that I have and want to return to play more, or have not played yet...
CK2
EU4
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Civ5

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I actually do not care at all about dx11 on wine. I only use wine for legacy programms (especially LackeyCCG) and dx11 seems to me completely unrelevant and just hope for native support and for Vulkan.

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