I play Genshin Impact on Linix just fine :)
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I still can't believe league of legends won out. I thought Heroes of Newerth was more fun back in the day.
linux got just a little worse pretty recently: roblox is now playable on it
sober is the project name that ports it to Linux
R6S doesnt work in windows either (if virtualized).
Since when did GTAO stopped working on linux tho? Did it introduce an anticheat as well?
The advantages of Linux are worth such sacrifices.
Unpopular opinion: these memes always have βI am very smartβ energy on Lemmy. The issue is that these companies should support Linux not that your personal taste in video games means itβs a good thing that they donβt.
I donβt play any of these particular games but I have other software that doesnβt run on Linux without considerable effort. So I havenβt switched. My best friend has switched and made the changes necessary and is forever troubleshooting issues.
It's a meme. Old one, too.
Gatekeeping "uhmm actually I only play artisanal games delivered exclusively to a single person" is bad and must be spoken out against. And Lemmy sucks on that front.
No, no, no - this is all wrong. I don't consider you a person unless you self-flagellate at the terminal daily, compiling from source in dependency hell while being cleansed by the vim fires at the altar of Tux.
This species of Linux user reminds me quite a lot of Catholics.
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I agree with you that these memes are a little silly, but I also agree with the overall point that it's actually good that these games don't run on Linux. It has nothing to do with my personal taste in these games though, and everything to do with privacy violations via kernel-level anticheats, and getting people addicted via dark patterns like microtransactions, gacha, and FOMO-inducing battlepasses.
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Does this imply playstation is better than windows pc?
The source code for rainbow 6 is probably in the wild now from the christmas mongo hack. It may be fixable. Maybe, it's development was fraught, that code might be a nightmare.
Battlefield 6 is why I have a windows machine right now
You can run Genshin Impact on Linux
jokes on you, i only play video games that is made by a atleast "Decent" company,not made in a slopware engine like Unity,unreal?(the engine isnt bad itself its just the company,also includes the middle ware it uses if the middle ware is also usable by free software too,made by a company with good track record or heavily modified),doesnt do kernel level anticheat,moddable in some way.
Is this a mean or are you being real?
why? am being fr
You say that but the only game that i run on that computer is nestopia (emulator) and super tux...
Unreal - the engine - has fallen from grace. Not just due to all the slop produced with it, but because it's horribly overengineered.
Nowadays it's rate to come by with an engine that is purpose built. Now each and every engine must account for most popular game genres at the moment, that could be done with them.
If you liked Unreal, you will like Sauerbraten.
Thank you for letting me to know about it!
That artifact factory, full of ghosting and stutters is overengineered? I swear Unreal 5 games only looks good when absolutely everything stays still...
That's a developer issue.
It's really easy to not have that issue.
Yes they have a cinematic quality to them. But at some point you need to actually play the game...
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I know a lot of you don't care if these games run or not, but really does suck they don't. I've talked to quite a few people that wouldn't switch to Linux because X game doesn't run on it.
Yeah this is only a win if you don't play those games. Unfortunately these games are intensely popular and the lack of compatibility stunts the popularity of Linux. I expect there is a similar anti-meme of this list titled "why I'll never install Linux"
Mechwarrior 2 Titanium trilogy, arguably the best games EVER MADE (fight me, wetnose) doesn't really run on anything beyond Windows 2000. I simply refuse to update to any OS that doesn't retain the functionality of my games.
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Genshin and ZZZ have been running fine from the official installer in a Proton Prefix for years now. They use a different anticheat from the two Honkai games for some reason.
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You can use https://launcher.moe/ 's software for Hoyo games btw. The top one is the one for Genshin Impact.
Though last I installed Genshin on Linux I remember there being a slight chance of getting banned because you had to disable the anticheat to run it on Linux, but I never had it happen to me and I'm not sure if that's still valid.
The game's anticheat is very tame generally. I've seen some friends run all sorts of cheats with no real repercussions, only getting a one week temp ban for editing their damage to the maximum integer limit.
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Warframe - Linux: β οΈ
Conclusion, Linux wins.
I can overlook all of this.
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