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[–] ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I can only answer why I dropped Windows. I wasn’t going to pay a company to force AI spyware onto my system, ignore my commands with every update that negated them, or hold my data hostage if I didn’t jump through their endless hoops; all to claim my data as theirs with their end goal being to charge me more money for accessing what is supposed to be mine in the first place!

[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This. The minute I figure out how to gracefully migrate my VMs off of Hyper-V I'm done with it. My kids' machines would already be migrated if they weren't Roblox enjoyers.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 17 hours ago

There are tools for converting Hyper-V drives to vmdks that everything can read. Then just fire up new kvm instances and load the disk images.

[–] osbo9991@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For Roblox, there's Sober. It works (IIRC) by putting the android version of Roblox in a container and passing the appropriate system calls to the Linux machine. It doesn't need to worry about issues with Roblox's Byfron anticheat since Byfron hasn't been implemented there (yet).

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 hours ago

Roblox has anti-cheat? Lol

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Honest question: can Roblox be played via Steam in a Linux pc?

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Here you go.

It does look like Roblox is trying to kill the Linux workarounds, though. But to me that's a reason to drop Roblox, not Linux.

[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 1 day ago

It does look like Roblox is trying to kill the Linux workarounds, though.

This has been the big issue. I'm confident I can tinker something into working, either with Sober as @osbo9991@lemmy.world said or with enough fighting with Lutris/Proton/Wine for today But when the developers are actively working to prevent it. it's a hard sell when we already have the Windows install and it's already working, particularly for something they'll (nominally) outgrow in a few more years.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't think there is a Steam entry for the game, but you can install it with Lutris, which does the setup for you. I don't actually play the game, so I can't speak much more about it.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Pretty much this for me too, only I already switched in 2002. It really wasn't that hard leaving windows behind, even back then