--- title: Linux Has Grown Into A Viable PC Gaming Platform And The... description: 74 of the top 100 most-played games on Steam are in "Gold" or "Platinum" status. That means the game should work "out of the box" with no modifications. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/linux-has-grown-into-a-viable-pc-gaming-platform-and-the-steam-stats-prove-it-e1qzrdli twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Linux Has Grown Into A Viable PC Gaming Platform And The Steam Stats Prove It | daily.dev og:description: 74 of the top 100 most-played games on Steam are in "Gold" or "Platinum" status. That means the game should work "out of the box" with no modifications. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/linux-has-grown-into-a-viable-pc-gaming-platform-and-the-steam-stats-prove-it-e1qzrdli og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/e1QZRdli-.png og:image:alt: Linux Has Grown Into A Viable PC Gaming Platform And The Steam Stats Prove It og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Linux Has Grown Into A Viable PC Gaming Platform And The Steam Stats Prove It **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 3 min read · 23 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary 74 of the top 100 most-played games on Steam are in "Gold" or "Platinum" status. That means the game should work "out of the box" with no modifications. The quality of Proton is a matter of ever-increasing importance as we creep closer to the February 2022 launch window for the Steam Deck. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@abhishah901** · 0 upvotes > Only reason I switched to Linux was to get off my gaming addiction, welp there goes that. But it's a welcome shift, I guess now I can dabble a bit in the "gaming as an entertainment" aspect. **@craftogrammer** · 0 upvotes > Nopes ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#gaming](https://daily.dev/tags/gaming), [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#steam](https://daily.dev/tags/steam), [#steam-deck](https://daily.dev/tags/steam-deck), [#windows](https://daily.dev/tags/windows) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/linux-has-grown-into-a-viable-pc-gaming-platform-and-the-steam-stats-prove-it-e1qzrdli) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Linux Has Grown Into A Viable PC Gaming Platform And The Steam Stats Prove It","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/linux-has-grown-into-a-viable-pc-gaming-platform-and-the-steam-stats-prove-it-e1qzrdli","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/linux-has-grown-into-a-viable-pc-gaming-platform-and-the-steam-stats-prove-it-e1qzrdli"},"datePublished":"2021-12-23T09:52:16.547Z","dateModified":"2023-01-16T02:12:55.383Z","description":"74 of the top 100 most-played games on Steam are in \"Gold\" or \"Platinum\" status. 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