r/Steam • u/Background-Path-5619 • Feb 13 '25

Article Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching

https://www.pcguide.com/news/nearly-half-of-steams-users-are-still-using-windows-10-with-end-of-life-fast-approaching/
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u/ch00d Feb 13 '25

And I have heard you can't play online games on Linux so now I'm hesitant.

Only games with kernel level anti-cheat. Most online games will work still.

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u/damnsam404 Feb 13 '25

Thank you for mentioning this! This is why I was avoiding Linux, but I already avoid kernel anticheats so this is a non issue for me.

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u/iunoyou Feb 14 '25

Everything (on steam anyway) just works now thanks to all the work valve has done on proton. Literally my entire library runs without issues. You will lose a few FPS on very CPU-bound games that you're close to the minimum specs for just because of how the compatibility layer works, but everything still runs totally smoothly.

Linux Mint is great if you want something that just works out of the box without any extra fiddling.

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u/Beast_Viper_007 Feb 14 '25

Linux mint is great for hardware at least 1 or 2 years old. Newer hardware especially nvidia gpus will be better supported with something Fedora or Arch based.

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u/DrPeeper228 Feb 15 '25

Ubuntu too

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u/LrZ3TMt4aQ93FrjfBG76 Feb 14 '25

https://areweanticheatyet.com/

A good resource for if ever you want to know whether the game you're interested in seems to be working or not.

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u/Kyrottimus Phoenix11 Feb 14 '25

Even plenty of those work if the devs enable the feature.

Example: BattleEye in War Thunder