Windows 10 stopped getting security updates in October. The official way forward is Windows 11, and even if your PC will take it, you know the deal by now: it spends a real slice of your RAM and CPU on things you never asked for and can't fully switch off. Telemetry, ads in the Start menu, Recall, Copilot, a search box that phones home, background services that wake up whenever they feel like it, updates that reboot you overnight. On a gaming machine that's frames and load times going to overhead you get nothing back for.
So a lot of people are looking hard at Linux for the first time. For a gaming PC there's one question that matters more than any other: will my games actually run?
We built something to help you answer it. Head to playtopia.com.au/linux, point it at your Steam library, and pick the graphics card and Linux distro you're thinking about. You get a game-by-game readout of what runs, what needs a small tweak, and what won't work yet.
How it works, and where the data comes from
To be clear about what this is: we didn't build the compatibility data, and we couldn't. It comes from ProtonDB, where hundreds of thousands of Linux players have logged how specific games ran on their own hardware, and from AreWeAntiCheatYet, which tracks which anti-cheat systems block Linux outright.
What our tool does is line up two things you give it: the list of games in your Steam library, and the setup you're planning to run, your graphics card and your distro. For each game it pulls the matching player reports and narrows them to people on hardware like yours, so instead of one blanket rating you get something like "84% of NVIDIA players on an Arch-based distro got this running." Games walled off by anti-cheat are flagged plainly, because that's the one problem no amount of tinkering fixes.
Every game in your library is listed. Filter by verdict, search, and open any title to see the numbers behind the call: how many players succeeded, the problems they hit, and the exact launch options people used to get it going. Each game also links straight to its page on ProtonDB, where you can read the full reports and the in-depth threads players have written about that specific title. If a verdict looks wrong to you, that's the place to dig in.
Free, no login needed
Paste a SteamID or profile link and go. Your Steam game details need to be public. Log in and connect your Steam account and it'll read a private library too, with per-game notes and automatic re-checks as Proton improves coming soon.
Try it, then tell us
This is a first cut and we want it kicked around. Run your library through it and let us know in the comments: is a verdict wrong? Is your distro or GPU missing? Is something confusing? All of it helps.
And if you've already made the switch to Linux, we especially want to hear from you. What surprised you, what you'd tell someone on the fence, what still annoys you. Drop it below.
The verdicts are estimates, not guarantees, and they're only as good as what players report. But for working out whether the jump is worth it, it beats guessing.