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Laittakaa meemejä tänne.
Also no Roblox, if you were still on the fence.
Stop, I can only get so erect!
Actually you can play Roblox on Linux. There's Sober.
I know it’s probably named in reference to wine, but I like the idea of a Linux Roblox program (emulator? I don’t know Linux or video games) as someone’s manic sobriety project*.
/* I don’t know if this is an identified thing, but most of the large number of recovering addicts I know sort of displace that manic type of love for the substance or behavior into one or more hobbies of some sort at first (examples include: repairing an old boat or classic car, building a house or cabin, making furniture or art, a bunch of types of exercise, joining a club, building furniture or bikes, or cooking) and gradually learn moderation afterwards.
Like 80% of the games I already play are random indie stuff. I buy maybe 1-2 new big studio games a year, and even those aren't exactly AAA. Right now, feels like big studios aren't trying hard to produce actually interesting games, just more franchise slop.
Steam machine got a solid "Oooooooo! Can't afford one right now but I'm sure keeping an eye on this one!" out of me.
Honestly the whole "modern tech style" thing is making me feel feel off.
The controller looks nice tho. Supports linux and would go well with retroarch to emulate old games on thinkpad.
Hell maybe a raspberry pi connected to the TV monitor.
Did you want it to come in a Beige Box?
I personally like wood exterior or utilitarian sheet metal with no lights.
It’s mostly heat sink and fan out the back, cube shape is no frills and works great for what it is.
I think the faceplates will be swappable so I can get that custom gabecube look.
No League as well.
No League, no Valorant, no GTA Online, no Battlefield 6, no Rainbow Six Siege
So not much of value is lost
I'm already buying it, you don't have to sell it to me.
I once tried Valorant, recommended by a friend. I liked it but the community didn't like me (since I suck), so I didn't play more.
Trying to uninstall it was such a mess that I think the kernel level anti cheat was in my windows install until I got rid of said windows install
Stop, I can only get so hard.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ they're cutting themselves out of a potential market, while I still have ton of other games to play.
I've never understood these memes. If you don't want to play whatever game, don't play it. How do you somehow convince yourself that you're superior to others due to your inability to run certain programs?
Issa joke. Making fun at the expense of AAA games :)
I understand that it's a joke, but the humor isn't making sense to me, and I especially don't see how it's at the expense of AAA games
I guess it comes from a point where Linux gamers have been neglected by major studios for so long and now that there are enough other options they don’t have any power on them.
it's associative, the negative associations with Call of Duty players cannot be transferred to a console that doesn't support that game, so for people who want to avoid those associations it's a plus
There's definitely something to this. Like I'm often scared to be part of any group because inevitably someone in that group will be an asshole. I have played video games for a long time but I refuse to refer to myself as a "gamer" because of the associations.
joke is that not being able to play things you don't like are a bonus. it's a joke about how much you dislike that. now if you excuse me, I have a frog to dissect
The thing is that with W10 going EOL, everyone is going to be forced to learn a new OS, regardless if they want to or not (W11has been out for years, if you havent jumped, there is likely a reason). Lemmy users being the socially concious crusaders that they are, are encouraging people to make a better choice than defaulting to Windows again (given all its very real issues of useability and data harvesting).
Not having access to preditory games due to self-imposed tech limitations isnt high on the list of reasons to choose linux, but its good shitpost material.
Quote from a HN thread
My main game console right now is one of those little gaming boxes you can buy on Amazon for about $400, where I have installed NixOS + Jovian to get the "SteamOS" interface.
I really like it. It really does feel like a "game console"; usually when I've made my own console using Linux, it always feels kind of janky. For example, RetroPie on the Raspberry Pi is pretty cool, but it doesn't feel like a proper commercial product, it feels like a developer made a GUI to launch games.
I have like 750 games on Steam that I have hoarded over the years, in addition to the Epic Games Store and GOG, which can be installed with Heroic, and the fact that I can play them on a "console" instead of a computer makes it much easier to play in my living room or bedroom. It even works fine with the Xbox One controllers; I use the official Microsoft USB dongle to minimize latency, it works great.
I think there actually is a chance that Valve could really be a real competitor, if not a winner.
I have one of the higher-end beelinks. Super small, quiet, doesn't get hot and I can play modern AAA titles on it, driving my huge screen TV in my living room.
Can you quantify this? Which Beelink? Are you powering a 4K TV? When you talk about playing modern AAA games, which ones, and what settings do you run at?
Fortnite, Cyberpunk, Starfield, probably others I'm forgetting I believe the TV is 4K, yeah. It's the Beelink SER9 AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 12core/24thread AI PC Turbo Freq 5.1GHz
Regrettably this stops me from forcing my archaic belief system on my children.
I mean you can always do it anyway and take away their ability to play those games. They will hate you for now, but later when they grow up, they will probably still hate you but a little less.
The online multiplayer for the original version of Modern Warfare and other older games still works fine on Linux and even has community modded maps and modes.
Those Steam Machines are just normal PCs. There should be no reason why you couldn't dualboot windows to play those few games that do not work on Linux.
The reason is, I don't wanna.
There isn't any game I want to play bad enough to install malware on my device.
I have heard that Windows tends to 'nuke' the EFI boot partition if it's shared with Linux. I'm not sure if it's valid to have two EFI partitions on the same disk, but if the box can handle a second EFI boot partition, that would be a safer option.
There is also the issue that normal windows shutdown does not mean shutdown, but "hibernate". In this state, touching any of the partitions the windows was previously using could corrupt them if mounted in Linux. (The same applies in reverse, and would be even more dangerous.) This doesn't prevent dual-booting, but some care should be taken that the swiched-from-OS was actually shutdown.
Windows is like the selfish little kid that won't play well with others if they aren't picked first.
You can install Windows on it if you really want to.
Fortnite can’t be played on Linux?
The CEO has a wierd hate boner for Linux. Like it would be one thing if it was just anti cheat but he like personally hates Linux. It's weird.
There was binary for UT2k4 that never made it to Steam for no good reason. Fuck Tim Sweeney for delisting the Unreal franchise.
You might not play them, but others might. Exclusivity is always fucking bad, you're not only normalising it, you're celebrating it.
But hopefully this is the push they need. I got no horse in this race. Not games I'm playing and I'm not buying gabecube.
Then tell Epic and Infinity Ward/Treyarch (or whoever cranks those out like Madden games now) about it. It's their fault these games are not supported on linux by requiring kernel level anti-cheat instead of server side anti-cheat.
Take Destiny for another example, runs perfectly fine on linux, until Bungie permabans your acct for playing on linux.
It's not linux's fault, it's the shitass companies refusing to be good at things.
