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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.

Stop, I can only get so erect!

Actually you can play Roblox on Linux. There's Sober.

I thought so too but I was able to get it running when my friends partner really wanted to play bingo in roblox with me. Worked fine after some setup

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.

No League, no Valorant, no GTA Online, no Battlefield 6, no Rainbow Six Siege

So not much of value is lost

Lutris my beloved

You couldn't pay me to play cod or fortnite.

Issa joke. Making fun at the expense of AAA games :)

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

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

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.

So, it could be. Like, there’s no reason that the program its self couldn’t run through a comparability layer like wine or proton.

It’s just that it, like many other big multi-player live service shooters, it requires kernel level “anti cheat” programs. Basically programs that run at the lowest level of your system and check what’s running on the system, making sure the user isn’t running any cheats or altering how the game runs to cheat. They need to be at the lowest layer to prevent programs below them spoofing the checks they are running. So if they detect that they’re not running at the lowest level, they tell the game not to run, or at least, not to allow the player to join online matches.

These could theoretically could run through a compatibility layer, but then they wouldn’t be running at the lowest layer of the system, defeating the point of them. They would have to run natively on Linux, and the companies that make them have not made versions that run natively on Linux.

The actual efficacy of these anti cheat systems is dubious, as there is still cheating in games that use them, and they’re super invasive, being basically spywear. But they’re required by a handful of major games.

Probably because of anti cheat.

Steam machines are not aimed toward pc gamers... they are aimed to convert console peasants.