• CalcProgrammer1
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    21 days ago

    Except for more and more multiplayer games unfortunately. If you only play single player games, Linux gaming is awesome. If you play with your friends, the shitty anticheat situation means you may need to keep Windows around. I have Windows 10 just for Fortnite because my friends play. GTA Online just killed Linux play by adding BattlEye. Just today, one of the biggest online games that did work on Linux including its anticheat dropped support (Apex Legends). We desperately need a way to fight back against this bullshit, because it’s undoing all the incredible progress we’ve made. Valve needs to start banning games from their store for retroactively breaking Linux support.

    • BombOmOm
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      21 days ago

      Valve needs to start banning games from their store for retroactively breaking Linux support.

      Valve did recently mandate games will have to share if they use Kernel Level Anti-Cheat. If nothing else it allows people to better see what games want to own their systems.

      If you play with your friends, the shitty anticheat situation means you may need to keep Windows around.

      Highly suggest the new Factorio expansion with friends. Game is a shitload of fun and there is no anti-cheat BS.

    • @omarfw
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      21 days ago

      The way you fight is by using Linux and contributing to the percentage of Linux users on the steam hardware survey. Developers pay attention to that. More Linux users means more support in the future.

      Everyone wants to switch to Linux but nobody wants to make the sacrifice of being one of the early adopters to help turn the tide away from windows.

      I’m personally gonna do a dual boot with windows as a backup.

    • Aatube
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      -221 days ago

      I guess you could play Roblox instead and deal with child labor 🫠

      • CalcProgrammer1
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        221 days ago

        Roblox also doesn’t work on Linux IIRC. I don’t play it but it was in the Linux gaming news cycle a while ago that they broke Wine compatibility, not sure if it was anticheat related or not.

        • Aatube
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          yeah it was their own anticheat. you can play it perfectly fine (except scrollbars are a bit fast) with Sober though.

        • Tux
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          021 days ago

          Could you just spin up WIndows VM if you have decent computer like 16GB RAM and somewhat powerful GPU?

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