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My friend didn't have a great experience with Linux (feddit.nl)
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I have been daily driving Linux for over two years now and I have switched distros many times. So, when my friend bought a new laptop, I convinced him to install Linux Mint on it. I asked him if he wanted to dual boot, he said no because it would fill up all his storage. We installed Linux Mint. The other day, he wanted to play FIFA 17 on his computer. After 5 whole hours of troubleshooting we were able to get FIFA running smoothly with some issues. Next, he wanted to play Roblox. I guided him through the process of installing Waydroid and libhoudini, only to discover that Roblox would run at 10 FPS. With Minecraft, it wasn't any better. It took us 1 hour to get it working (not skill issue, he wanted to play cracked through Prism Launcher). Now, he wants to go back to Windows 10. I have already told him about dual boot, but he has only 256GB of storage and he wants to play a lot of games. What should I do? Install Windows to his laptop, install some other Linux distro, or try to convince him more about dual boot? Thanks in advance and sorry for the essay.

UPDATE: Of course I will help him install Windows on his computer if he wants so, I don't want to force him to use Linux after all. I just wanted him to give it a try, and maybe daily drive it, if he can.

EDIT: Because for some reason it was misunderstood, let me clarify it here. Roblox ran with poor performance on Waydroid, not Minecraft. I just said that the installation of Prism Launcher cracked was difficult. After that, Minecraft ran smoothly without any problems.

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[–] penquin@lemm.ee 57 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Your friend plays only the games that are a pain to make work on Linux, or straight up don't work. What else does he want to play, fortnite? Maybe some destiny? Lol Let them be. Windows is for them, Linux isn't, and that's ok.

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ooh ooh! Genshin for good measure! That one even absolutely REFUSES to play in a VM or emulator!

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've been playing genshin on Linux for almost a year now. Hint, Heroic games launcher ;)

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

If that works I'm de installing Windows

It may seem petty, but I actually really like Genshin (and Honkai: Star Rail for that matter), and I had Windows already there, anyway

EDIT AreWeAntiCheatYet confirms Genshin should work:
Heroic Launcher showing Genshin should work

Though they confirm Honkai: Star Rail is broken:
Heroic Launcher showing Star Rail shouldn't work

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Honkai won't work, only genshin.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Guys, search for "an anime team" on github. You don't even need to configure Heroic/Lutris/Bottles.

Do you guys really believe that the Linux community will not find a way to play with waifus?

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh I know about that some launcher thingy. It's available for both, but very iffy. It worked for honkai for a while then just quit out of nowhere. And it never worked for genshin

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I played Genshin with it for about 6 months before I quit and it worked pretty well, the downside is that when the game is updated the launcher has to be updated too and that takes some time. I never missed the dailies though.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

I got it through the epic store on heroic launcher and got it over with.

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And Genshin's launcher needs to be told to install under C:\Program Files instead of that Z: drive, it's installing!

Too bad about Star Rail, though.

I guess the 60 GiB monolith of a Windows installation has exactly one function, now.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The honkai one stopped working for good for me and the genshin one just refuses to work from the start.

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Okay, happily Genshin is working fine for me! Honkai SR doesn't, indeed.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Genshin works fine on heroic, and I didn't really like honkai much anyway, so it's a win-win now. I've also tried wuthering waves and it's a big nope on Linux. You know of any "that anime launcher" for it?

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

Guys, search for "an anime team" on github. You don't even need to configure Heroic/Lutris/Bottles.

Do you guys really believe that the Linux community will not find a way to play with waifus?