Between 2022-10-19 and 2022-10-26 there were 33 New Steam games released with Native Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 306 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 10.8 % of total…
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Native clients are nice to haves and are great for weird old GPUs that don’t support Vulkan, but as you’re saying they’re probably pointless in about 95% of cases since most people run systems capable of running Proton with DXVK.
Still, there will probably come a time when Microsoft drops Windows 10 support and vendors making software for Windows 11 will be forced to opt into some of the security virtualization features Win 11 offers that could cause issues for Proton. The GPU virtualization features could be overcome with native Vulkan support, but some of the memory virtualization and potential future measures may warrant the existence of native Linux clients.
This is the first I’m hearing of Win 11 virtualization. Does it offer any real benefits or is it simply more bloat and needless complexity?
I know personally that I have no intention to move beyond 10. I was already very much against 10 as an OS. 11 might very well be like 8 where people simply refuse to migrate. Every other version turns out to be a broken mess nobody wanted. That’s what I’m expecting out of 11. At the very least I’m guessing that software like what you’re mentioning will make it too bloated and complex to operate on enough hardware as to make it something to dismiss.