I wanna like Linux but I play too many games with anti-cheats that just don’t work on Linux yet :(
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AbsurdityAccelerator@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I installed Linux Mint a few days ago. It’s been great so far.
UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mean, you’re not wrong. Anticheat is pretty much the one thing that Linux doesn’t play nicely with. Given, it’s largely on the game producers to fix, not on the OS. But it’s still a valid complaint from an end user perspective.
If Linux fans truly want to encourage migration, stifling valid complaints isn’t the way to do it. The issue with everyone going “oh it’s so easy, it’s so much better, you won’t regret it at all” is that as soon as a user encounters a hangup they’ll be more inclined to just abandon it altogether. Because if everyone is going “oh it’s so easy” but you’re not having an easy time with it, then you’ll quickly conclude that maybe it’s just not the right fit for you. And the people going “lul just don’t play those games then dummy” need to get some friends. Because when all of those friends are playing the shiny new game but they’re locked out of it due to their choice of OS, they may consider dual-booting Windows just to be able to keep up with their friends.
But this is Lemmy and the Linux fanboys can’t tolerate a single toe out of line. So I guess it makes sense why you got downvoted.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Anticheat is pretty much the one thing that Linux doesn’t play nicely with.
It’s the other way around.
Anticheat doesn’t play well with Linux.
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Did you stop reading right there to comment? Because I say exactly that in the next sentence.
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
An important distinction, for sure
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
But it’s still a valid complaint from an end user perspective.
If Linux fans truly want to encourage migration
it’s technically a valid complaint, it’s not a linux problem though. Don’t come crying to us when your game doesn’t work, we’ve literally made 90% of all games ever work under linux with zero effort.
It’d be like buying a proprietary macbook for instance, and then when you find out that the only people who want to service it, are the people who sold you it at an aggressive price, who will then still, ask you for even more money. Only to complain about right to repair not letting you repair your device, even though it’s an apple issue.
What do you want us to say? We can’t physically test every game to ever exist, and premeditate every issue to ever have possibly occurred to someone. Part of linux is literally learning how to solve these problems, that’s why linux is such a great system OS, when you have problems, you can often just fix them yourself.
I mean sure maybe linux is too hard for you, how hard did you try to understand it? Maybe it’s not the right fit for you, but then i would expect people to just not care about linux. Rather than call it shit, because they didn’t understand it.
Also, dualbooting is a valid option, a lot of linux users even have a dedicated windows machine somewhere in their house just because of how shitty everything is these days. Nobody is saying you can’t do that.
laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I will say the solution to that IS to not play those games, but that only starts to work when enough people do that to hurt the bottom line of the devs
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Honestly the best solution is to find alternatives
If the audience stays on Windows then there is no incentive to support Linux
RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Its not that easy. There is no alternative for some of the big games. I play genshin impact and honkai star rail and these games do not run on linux.
I use linux but keep windows dual booted purely for these games.
Asking people to give up their hobby is not a solution.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Asking people to give up their hobby is not a solution.
A solution doesn’t mean everyone will use it
Even if no one uses it that is still what has to happen for devs to target Linux instead of Windows
Imagine every Genshin player moved to Linux. Would the game move to Linux or just die?
Grangle1@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I hear you, it sucks sometimes, especially with Asian-made games/software which LOVE locking themselves to one OS or platform literally for completely random, arbitrary reasons. You can still play them on mobile though. Especially given that you don’t quite want to install a Linux OS on your phone yet (I mean traditional Linux, not Android or a de-Googled Android offshoot) since that’s still largely a work in progress and not ready for primetime yet.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
genshin impact and honkai star rail
aren’t these both like pay 2 win, or at least free to play? Isn’t the whole genre of these games to make money off of it’s players?
Sounds like a really healthy hobby.
xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 weeks ago
As far as I know, pretty much the only anti-cheat that doesn’t work on linux is the kernel-level malware kind. I personally avoid those games at all costs regardless. That’s easy for me to say though, since I barely play any competitive games…
secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Easy solution, stop playing those game /s
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
shrug.
its what I did. Its not that hard a sacrifice.
really only asian mmos that had the obnoxious no-worky-linux anticheat to begin with, in my experience with what i played.
secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Honestly same. The game I gave up was Planetside 2 but it works on Linux now
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
i mean, most of those games just aren’t very good games. Drugs are pretty cool, alcohol is pretty fun, people actively avoid that shit though.
It’s up to the person whether they value playing a single game more than experiencing a wholly different and more respecting operating system i suppose.
bitwolf@lemmy.one 3 weeks ago
Technically they do work, but the publisher is blocking Linux.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The launchers work. The games do not. But plenty of games are going that way.
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
check areweanticheatyet.com to see if they work, they might
AbsurdityAccelerator@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Demand better from the devs. And seeks out games that work on linux. There are plenty of them.
httperror418@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hopefully those games go to steam deck as that seems like a way to have a market share they might then cater for (I can’t play BF on Linux due to the antichear requirements)
Bulletdust@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Only BFV. BF1, BFBC2, BF3 and BF4 all still run perfectly.
httperror418@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is this true for 2042? Honestly would use a Linux distro otherwise (probably Ubuntu but might look for an alternative)
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Another option is playing not on your hardware entirely - at least where I live, there are computer clubs where you can use high-end gaming computers for a small per-hour fee.
return2ozma@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What do you like and don’t like about it so far? What system did you install it on?
AbsurdityAccelerator@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
For now it just works. I have no complaints. I ran into just a few tiny snags and was able to resolve everything with a google search. It’s installed on my 10 year old desktop.
CaptKoala@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Welcome to the good life, with the exception of VR and (rootkit) anticheat for multiplayer, it’s all smiles over here.
Hope Mint treats you as well as it’s treated me! (Even though most of my tinkering breaks stuff, reinstall incoming I suspect)
AbsurdityAccelerator@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t play anything multi-player so it’s not an issue. And I have to little time to play single player games I can simply ignore stuff that’s not compatible.
As far as VR, I am holding out hope that valve will make a Quest like VR headset.
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Windows 11 made my girlfriend’s laptop so slow, even she asked me to install Linux, and she is not even a techy type.
bitwolf@lemmy.one 3 weeks ago
Nature is healing!
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
I installed Mint for my elderly mom a couple years ago, because Windows 7 was EOL and even 10 would’ve been too slow (had ab experience with an involuntary upgrade on our family laptop years earlier).
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I installed pop os and libre office on my wife’s laptop not long after Pop was released, and by now I don’t think she would know what to do on Windows or Mac. So proud of her.