• socsa
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    523 minutes ago

    It’s even worse than you think.

    He will become… An engineer.

      • @stupidcasey
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        76 hours ago

        Are we talking about the M3 chips? Or the last intel? Because these are not the same.

        • @[email protected]
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          Were talking about m serie, the fps may not be amazing but macos cant run windows games like linux can. When every wwdc apple just shows off some game they paid a metric crap ton to get it ported. Which isnt really gaming, if your selection is like 5 games.

          • june (she/her)
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            That’s so false… That’s like saying the only games Windows can run is Halo and whatever crap is in the Windows Store. Steam has thousands of out-of-the-box compatible games and Crossover helps cover many other games.

            Before I got I rebuild my Linux gaming PC (watercooling shenanigans) I gamed for a solid year on MacOS. I played Baldur’s Gate 3 on release for Windows through Crossover, was on my second play through when official Mac support dropped. I’ve played Civ 5 & 6 with friends. I’ve made many cities in Cities Skylines. I played FF7 Remake again. Even for old 32-bit Windows games like Touhou 6 run with minor tweaking.

    • @[email protected]
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      106 hours ago

      Try Whisky! It uses Wine and has conversion for the Apple graphics layer. It runs some games you can’t get running otherwise.

    • @[email protected]
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      46 hours ago

      You should probably also update the meme faces to whatever the hell the kids are using these days.

  • Lvxferre
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    Then the kid installs Proton and your keikaku* fails miserably.

    *TN: keikaku means plan.

    • Draconic NEO
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      It comes with Steam by default and is automatically used out of the box when a native linux version of the game isn’t found.

    • @[email protected]
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      I think the plan is more that he’ll be so busy coonfing to optimize his userspace that he’ll have no time to game.

  • TurboWafflz
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    I played so much supertuxkart in middle school, then got pretty good at figuring out how to configure wine to make everything work in high school, and now as an adult wine has gotten so good that I just click on whatever I want to play on steam and 90% of the time it just works flawlessly, I don’t even always remember which games are native and which are running in wine these days.

    Anyway yeah, using linux never made me spend less time playing games

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    75 hours ago

    I think the only game that’s given me a hard time with linux is Call of Duty

    And that’s not to say that you couldn’t get it to work, it was just more than one click to set up so I couldn’t be bothered.

    Honestly, probably better of without CoD anyway

  • @PapstJL4U
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    I think a friend of mine would be delighted to have his children play video games.

    They are only consuming [tiktock, yt, other social media].

    I think he rather wants his children beating Red Alert campaign, than cpnsum 10s tiktocks.

    Modding your first game, opening condigs ans inis, because key-remapping wasn’t a thing…all the gateways to interact with file system.

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      Learning how to edit config.sys to get sound working without internet help was a rite of passage for many.

      • socsa
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        The first time I knew I wanted to hack the planet was when I figured out how to edit a config file in Castles II: Siege and Conquest which let me start with max gold and resources so I could finally conquer the entire map and make that smug fucking pope eat my entire ass.

    • Avid Amoeba
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      I’m hooking mine up on games as soon as they can hold a mouse and a keyboard, airgap the PC.

      • @[email protected]
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        25 hours ago

        My oldest is about ready for her first computer, so I have an ewaste laptop earmarked for Christmas that I’ll have to tweak the configuration a bit more on before then.

        She’s been getting better at better playing Minecraft and learning how to ask us how to spell the names of things so she can search for them in Minecraft, and getting pretty good with the mouse and keyboard too

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    This got me thinking: If I, for some masochistic reason, decided to switch to MacOS - is it possible to install it on an average PC?

    • @otacon239
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      I don’t know of the community is still going with the release of Apple Silicon, but you used to be able to with the Hackintosh project. I can’t imagine you still can with the switch to ARM.