I took each rating for games on Wine Application Database, mapped them to numbers (Garbage -> 1, Bronze -> 2, Silver -> 3, Gold -> 4, Platinum -> 5) and plotted a monthly average.
The left axis is average number of ratings per app. As all rating except the 3 month, 6 month etc lines have dropped then to me this suggests there has been an explosion in the number of apps in the database.
The more apps, means more smaller apps with frwer user ratings so the lower the average number of ratings per app overall would be?
The left axis is total number of ratings of each type (Garbage, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum) in a given month (not per app). For example for month
2016-07there were"Garbage" => 22 "Bronze" => 14 "Silver" => 13 "Gold" => 55 "Platinum" => 61On right side is the average rating. So if I assign values to each rating:
"Garbage" => 1 "Bronze" => 2 "Silver" => 3 "Gold" => 4 "Platinum" => 5I can get an average rating, which will be between 1 to 5.
((22*1) + (14*2) + (13*3) + (55*4) + (61*5)) / (22 + 14 + 13 + 55 + 61) ~= 3.721
I don’t get “Number of ratings” on the y scale. I tjought it’s an average number?
Could you please plot this as a 100% area chart instead?
Here you go
That is a very different picture, isn’t it!
It’s the same picture.
is this the ratings on winehq? I could see the count of apps exploding on that page but ordinary users aren’t going to visit there to know they can even contribute that sort of qualitative stat
Yes it is the ratings on winehq, https://appdb.winehq.org/
And yes, an average user probably going to fire a game, figure out it is not working, and promptly go back to windows, which makes that data less accurate, but what can we do about it?
Delusional.
I’ve been using Linux for over 10 years for work and dev. But for gaming it’s still absolute dogshit. You need to constantly tinker to get shit to work.
- Even Minecraft, which is just Java, runs at 20% less FPS than on Windows, constant stutters and screen tearing that Vsync won’t fix.
- And then there is all of the RTX raytraced games that are broken or have considerably worse performance. - What about 5.1 surround speakers that work out of the box but will not work on Linux. I tried every driver and every tinker. So I can basically enjoy my game without sound, because my Razer headset also won’t connect automatically on boot. I have to unplug the dongle every single time.
- Ah yes, forgot about all of the Anticheat games. Nope, stop blaming it on the game devs. As an end-user, I don’t care about that.
- Then what about my Logitec mouse and keyboard and Corsair RGB? Can’t configure that either.
So this basically leaves me with half of my game library than on Windows, half of my gaming hardware, no sound, and a worse performance even in Minecraft.
Everyone who says Linux is a viable alternative as a daily driver for things other than software dev or sys admin is just delusional.
Skill issue
How is skill related to booting up an OS and launching a game? That should not require skill.
Besides, I’m probably more skillful with Linux. I could probably fix all of these issues. I just won’t. It’s much faster booting into Windows.
Minecraft is arguably & measurably more performant on Linux, full stop. Anything using OpenGL performs better on Linux, check any Minecraft benchmark online.
Not on stock Ubuntu. Don’t believe me? Reproduce with:
- RTX 3070
- Install Ubuntu
- Install Minecraft
- Launch Minecraft
- L for stutters and screen tearing.
What else do you want me to say? The benchmarks seem to be wrong I guess.
Self own.
LoL, for me Linux is a daily driver and I have not used windows/macOS for private stuff since a long time. I’m neither a sys admin nor a software dev.
I’ve used both for 10 years. So I’m in a better position to compare both. I’m a software dev and hobby sys admin.
You can not see through eyes that are not yours. How TF would you be in a better position to judge how non dev can handle Linux?!
Even Minecraft, which is just Java, runs at 20% less FPS than on Windows, constant stutters and screen tearing that Vsync won’t fix.
Have you tried Sodium? And don’t use stock Minecraft launcher. There is Prism Launcher, which is way better.
And then there is all of the RTX raytraced games that are broken or have considerably worse performance. - What about 5.1 surround speakers that work out of the box but will not work on Linux. I tried every driver and every tinker. So I can basically enjoy my game without sound, because my Razer headset also won’t connect automatically on boot. I have to unplug the dongle every single time.
Raytracing on linux is good these days
Then what about my Logitec mouse and keyboard and Corsair RGB? Can’t configure that either.
You have OpenRGB for that.
Everyone who says Linux is a viable alternative as a daily driver for things other than software dev or sys admin is just delusional.
But I don’t care about a single bullet point you shared?
And you’re not the average gamer. You’re probably more of an average Linux user.
Your comment just shows how disconnected this community really is sometimes.
Fair point
