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What about Source Engine games?
Source 2 S&Box…
I can’t get Excire Foto or Insta360 Windows app to run on Fedora. So this win is pretty offset by losses.
I can’t get any Unity games to run in Steam.
Epic win.
This is honestly a skill issue though
linux got just a little worse pretty recently: roblox is now playable on it
sober is the project name that ports it to Linux
I can overlook all of this.
jokes on you, i only play video games that is made by a atleast “Decent” company,not made in a slopware engine like Unity,unreal?(the engine isnt bad itself its just the company,also includes the middle ware it uses if the middle ware is also usable by free software too,made by a company with good track record or heavily modified),doesnt do kernel level anticheat,moddable in some way.
Unreal - the engine - has fallen from grace. Not just due to all the slop produced with it, but because it’s horribly overengineered.
Nowadays it’s rate to come by with an engine that is purpose built. Now each and every engine must account for most popular game genres at the moment, that could be done with them.
That artifact factory, full of ghosting and stutters is overengineered? I swear Unreal 5 games only looks good when absolutely everything stays still…
i see, and never knew Unreal was horribly overengineered.(maybe due to graphics?)
Wouldn’t be that bad, but it’s a multiple decades old engine. In fact, it’s first version even had software rendering for PCs without 3D accelerators.
Apex runs on Linux. We used to play it, but then they blocked it actively because there were too many cheaters on the platform. I’m sure the cheater problem has been subsided now that it’s blocked /s
If they “allow it”, you can just play it again.
Because Linux does not allow their rootkit “anticheat”
That’s the same with all of them. There’s only anti cheat that disallows it
What excuse do you think the others have?
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Sometimes I wish I could play classic MapleStory. That’s about it.
Unpopular opinion: these memes always have ‘I am very smart’ energy on Lemmy. The issue is that these companies should support Linux not that your personal taste in video games means it’s a good thing that they don’t.
I don’t play any of these particular games but I have other software that doesn’t run on Linux without considerable effort. So I haven’t switched. My best friend has switched and made the changes necessary and is forever troubleshooting issues.
No, no, no - this is all wrong. I don’t consider you a person unless you self-flagellate at the terminal daily, compiling from source in dependency hell while being cleansed by the vim fires at the altar of Tux.
This species of Linux user reminds me quite a lot of Catholics.
You’re shadowboxing with a nonexistent Linux user. People do that kind of stuff as a hobby, not for status. Most people who are into that sort of thing are too asocial to use any social capital they might have anyway.
Lol, is that what you tell yourself every day to justify staying with Windows? Do you convince yourself by imagining Linux users suffering?
I read that as “self-felate” and was impressed and horrified that people were that flexible while using the terminal.
My particular taste in video games is that they are not predating on my kernel bitch whatafuck is wrong with you they should not be allowed to do that
I agree with you that these memes are a little silly, but I also agree with the overall point that it’s actually good that these games don’t run on Linux. It has nothing to do with my personal taste in these games though, and everything to do with privacy violations via kernel-level anticheats, and getting people addicted via dark patterns like microtransactions, gacha, and FOMO-inducing battlepasses.
I built a computer for my uncle and his kids and installed Linux on it. My cousin wanted to play Fortnite, and I tried to pitch it to him as a feature instead of a bug. But a couple weekends ago, I caved and installed dang Windows 11 for him.
You caved to the megacorps immense pressure on kids to recruit and devulge their friends and peers desires so that the hypercapitalist pedo lords can Harvest them D: with knowledge that this goes on? Based.
It’s a meme, I don’t think folks are meant to view this as something other than ironic.
I don’t play any of these particular games but I have other software that doesn’t run on Linux without considerable effort.
Anything that isn’t a game can typically be run on a virtual machine.
So, the software that runs the features on my mouse and headset run on a VM. Then I play the games in the base OS with those features like software driven surround sound?
This is actually similar to the situation I came across with my friend. “Everything works 100% it’s crazy!” Sweet! How’d you get the customisable mouse buttons working? (He has the same mouse as me) “There are extra mouse buttons? Oh, there are! I never noticed. No, they don’t work anymore”. 😑
Of course they work just disassemble the Windows exe and find the addresses and break free from bloat
So it’s not software that doesn’t work but hardware that’s weird then? Sure, makes sense.
Next time you buy hardware look it up. Once you’re on stuff that’ll work in Linux you should be able to jump over easily then.
So it’s not software that doesn’t work but hardware that’s weird then? Sure, makes sense.
It’s a gaming mouse (I’m guessing you’re unfamiliar) with customisable buttons. The buttons work best with the software and the software doesn’t work natively on Linux, as previously mentioned.
I wish Linux was seamlessly transitionable but you seem to be saying that I should change to suit Linux. The “you’re holding it wrong” of open source software.
You can use https://launcher.moe/ 's software for Hoyo games btw. The top one is the one for Genshin Impact.
Though last I installed Genshin on Linux I remember there being a slight chance of getting banned because you had to disable the anticheat to run it on Linux, but I never had it happen to me and I’m not sure if that’s still valid.
Steam runs them just fine with Proton Experimental as well
Absolutely. I Installed the HoyoPlay launcher through Heroic and ZZZ runs flawlessly on my Steam Deck.
Last I played the game was single player… fuck these companies man
The game still is mostly single player. But, as most gacha games, Genshin Impact is online-only, mostly so that you couldn’t cheat in any resources you want without paying them a hefty price.
It was like that from the very beginning.
Warframe - Linux: ✅️
Conclusion, Linux wins.
You can run Genshin Impact on Linux
Not under my roof
You can, but you shouldn’t
speak for yourself
I know a lot of you don’t care if these games run or not, but really does suck they don’t. I’ve talked to quite a few people that wouldn’t switch to Linux because X game doesn’t run on it.
the only times i’ve had trouble playing a game on linux are when the developer specifically fucks with it so it won’t run on linux. the main reason for that is kernel-level anticheat software, which, from what i’ve heard, doesn’t really help with cheating much anyways. my computer is my computer, i don’t need microsoft or some game company going into my kernel. can’t wait for some drm company to get hacked and have windows gamers up in arms because they got ransomewared.
I think one of the games got hacked via their anticheat and we’re able to mess around with other players. I don’t remember which one it was though. I don’t play any of these games so they all blend together for me
Mechwarrior 2 Titanium trilogy, arguably the best games EVER MADE (fight me, wetnose) doesn’t really run on anything beyond Windows 2000. I simply refuse to update to any OS that doesn’t retain the functionality of my games.
Yeah this is only a win if you don’t play those games. Unfortunately these games are intensely popular and the lack of compatibility stunts the popularity of Linux. I expect there is a similar anti-meme of this list titled “why I’ll never install Linux”
They are addicted and hooked to a scam that Harvest their resources
Agreed, I switched my gaming rig to Linux for 6 months and was so excited to get things working. Went back to windows on it because I kept going to play with friends, and would often have to mess with Proton versions (again) to get the game working.
I really enjoy the Grounded games, so when Grounded 2’s early access was about to release I switched back to avoid dealing with those issues.
Still rocking Linux on my non-gaming devices though, aside from SteamDeck.
Went back to windows on it because I kept going to play with friends,
Shame.
I really enjoy the Grounded games, so when Grounded 2’s early access was about to release I switched back to avoid dealing with those issues.
Shame, shame, shame.
What would you recommend I do so that I wouldn’t have ran into those issues? Suck it up and keep dealing with the headaches?
I’m no fan of Windows either, but it lets me play games when I want to play them.
Both Grounded games are listed as Gold on ProtonDB, just FYI
Edit: Oh, I see. No crossplay. Well that sucks.
People will always come up with a reason to stay with what they have.
And other people will always come up with a reason you need to leave what you have even if it satisfies your need.
Your personal needs are not the concern. Free the software free the society.
Your personal needs are not the concern
And with that attitude you’ve already lost.
Your personal opinions are not my concern.
Genshin and ZZZ have been running fine from the official installer in a Proton Prefix for years now. They use a different anticheat from the two Honkai games for some reason.
Does that mean that Honkai games still can’t be played on Linux? There goes my idea of giving Star Rail a try.
I have faith in the general independent Linux developer landscape that eventually most all games will become compatible, whether AAA Devs want them to be or not.
They always want that. How can you guess that any aaa megacorp demonic multinational greedmachine entity will ever choose to make less money? It’s not about that. It’s about the control they give up of they don’t assume 100% control of your computer and all traffic always on it.
