AnimalsDream

To be honest I’ve never found the mechanics in Counter-Strike games enjoyable. Not trying to hate, I’m sure it’s great for those who like it, I just don’t think it’s for me.

I think the two pvp fps games I’ve found to have the closest to ideal mechanics is Doom 2016, and Red Eclipse 2. In Doom I liked that it had some of the more Call of Duty-esque features like loadouts, and a multiplayer progression system. And I especially liked how the actual combat preserved that classic arena shooter feel in kind of an brilliant way. They made it so right click had that iron sights feature, but which also applied a secondary fire ability - but crucially it was entirely optional for basically every weapon. Like in classic arena shooters you could be in constant motion and shoot from the hip without any penalties to your aiming.

Red Eclipse does this too (plus has crazy parkour features), but last I checked lacks any kind of progression system for better and worse.

Titanfall 2 is pretty fun as well, but I am really bad at that game in multiplayer.

Literally just defaults. The average person does not care what their operating system is, and will just run whatever is already on their computer.

Kind of a dubious claim, in the context of Windows not having nearly as much market dominance as they used to, and Linux adoption being far higher than it used to. Linux as a platform now has enough of a userbase that even companies like Epic are beginning to take it seriously.

Meanwhile reviews of Windows these days are so nearly universally poor, they are basically coasting on nothing but the inertia of their own previous success - which is eroding.

Oh, something about a game that doesn’t work on Linux. What are the most direct competitors to Valorant that work on Linux? I’m gonna go play those out of spite.