These metrics mean nothing to me
Proton is steam’s compatibility tool, these “medals” basically indicate how well a game works through it. Platnium and gold mean work without troubleshooting. Silver means a little tinkering with settings. Bronze means it can work with effort, and borked means it just doesn’t work.
So, 84% working with 0 effort, and 11% working with light tinkering.
The post is kind of incomprehensible if you’re not already familiar with proton and the troubleshooting website proton DB.
It’s also not a great metric if you don’t know what games the dude regularly buys especially if they’re already a*nix user
i mean, basically everything works so long as it doesn’t use certain anti cheat systems. But knowing what they play would have been more useful for the sake of discussion.
And around 70% of all online players are on those missing 2% :D
I mean we have tons of anticheat games working on Linux. More than people realize. Elden Ring, The Finals, Overwatch 2, CS2, Apex Legends, xDefiant and more that I can’t remember right now. It’s not that bad even as a multiplayer gamer. The ones that don’t work R6S, Val, LoL, Fortnite, CoD and Destiny pretty much.
Basically all the popular multiplayer games, meanwhile Linux gets the scraps.
No, just the competitive ones. I’ve played plenty of multiplayer games on Linux without issues.
Yeah, quantity over quality right here. If my favourite game doesn’t run on Linux, Linux is dead to me. Even if I had 5 favourite games and 1 doesn’t work, it’s still dead.
So for a lot of people it’s either 100% or it might as well not exist.
What is this info graphic even saying, I don’t understand
Those “medals” are how well the game works on proton. Platinum is comparable to Windows or better, gold is still pretty damn good, and so on.
Even Gold can be comparable to Windows. Even silver, since a lot of games don’t actually work well or at all on Windows anymore. At the same time, Platinum can still mean issues. It’s not that black & white comparable when there’s so many factors going into it (regardless of the OS).
Context: https://www.protondb.com/
Ah, the hallmark of mainstream usability: a four bar chart with multi-segmented portions based on different independent ratings of compatibility that don’t agree with each other.
