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PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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- PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Did you stop reading right there to comment? Because I say exactly that in the next sentence.
  
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  - KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    you say its on the game devs to fix, but game devs don’t usually roll their own anticheat. And when they do it would then be their problem, i suppose it could be them having had a bad decision i suppose?
    
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- ArtVandelay@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  An important distinction, for sure
  
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KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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