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Unpopular opinion: these memes always have ‘I am very smart’ energy on Lemmy. The issue is that these companies should support Linux not that your personal taste in video games means it’s a good thing that they don’t.
I don’t play any of these particular games but I have other software that doesn’t run on Linux without considerable effort. So I haven’t 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.
You're shadowboxing with a nonexistent Linux user. People do that kind of stuff as a hobby, not for status. Most people who are into that sort of thing are too asocial to use any social capital they might have anyway.
These people exist, I run into them here and elsewhere. one of them just replied to my comment.
I read that as “self-felate” and was impressed and horrified that people were that flexible while using the terminal.
Lol, is that what you tell yourself every day to justify staying with Windows? Do you convince yourself by imagining Linux users suffering?
I do not use Windows
And I don't use the terminal every day and install apps from the application manager.
If you have chosen a distro that forces you to use the terminal or install apps from source code, that's your choice, not a condition for all Linux users.
You're clearly not who I'm talking about then.
I've used various distros as daily drivers for over 20 years. Debian-based is comfy for me. So is the terminal, but I'll use a gui if it suits the situation. If I need a software package I install it in whatever way works, whether that's building from source and fighting through dependencies, composing a docker image, unpacking a static .deb or clicking 'install' on flat hub. I'm aware of the differences, and issues folks have, and I have my own preferences as well, but I mostly just don't care. It's all free (gratis) software, which I'm glad even exists. If it's truly libre, even better, I'm all about that. Given 2 functionally equivalent packages I'll always pick the most libre one. At the end of the day, I don't feel the need to run an ideologically pristine system. I need it to work.
I clearly touched a nerve, lol, but there's no need to get defensive.
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.
I built a computer for my uncle and his kids and installed Linux on it. My cousin wanted to play Fortnite, and I tried to pitch it to him as a feature instead of a bug. But a couple weekends ago, I caved and installed dang Windows 11 for him.
You caved to the megacorps immense pressure on kids to recruit and devulge their friends and peers desires so that the hypercapitalist pedo lords can Harvest them D: with knowledge that this goes on? Based.
I realized that I'm not going to win him over by being a jerk about it. Sometimes, all you can do is give people the space to come to the right conclusion themselves.
My particular taste in video games is that they are not predating on my kernel bitch whatafuck is wrong with you they should not be allowed to do that
Pre dating? Can't go somewhere and have fun? Is that a crime now?
Back in my day™ you could go somewhere, have fun and possibly hook up with someone from that thing years later. The lesbians are still doing it. But noooooo you zoomers ruined everything!
Leave your kernel alone!
It's a meme, I don't think folks are meant to view this as something other than ironic.
Anything that isn't a game can typically be run on a virtual machine.
So, the software that runs the features on my mouse and headset run on a VM. Then I play the games in the base OS with those features like software driven surround sound?
This is actually similar to the situation I came across with my friend. “Everything works 100% it’s crazy!” Sweet! How’d you get the customisable mouse buttons working? (He has the same mouse as me) “There are extra mouse buttons? Oh, there are! I never noticed. No, they don’t work anymore”. 😑
Of course they work just disassemble the Windows exe and find the addresses and break free from bloat
So it's not software that doesn't work but hardware that's weird then? Sure, makes sense.
Next time you buy hardware look it up. Once you're on stuff that'll work in Linux you should be able to jump over easily then.
It’s a gaming mouse (I’m guessing you’re unfamiliar) with customisable buttons. The buttons work best with the software and the software doesn’t work natively on Linux, as previously mentioned.
I wish Linux was seamlessly transitionable but you seem to be saying that I should change to suit Linux. The “you’re holding it wrong” of open source software.
Eh, not really dude. Linux cannot possibly account for each and every unique hardware combination that is put to market -- some of which are being invented as I type this sentence.
Some hardware is written with firmware that falls outside of standards and specs and some hardware producers are actively hostile to people providing support for their hardware on alternative platforms. Computer hardware and peripherals are a huge market with lots of players. I'm saying if Linux support is important to you, then make it part of your evaluation criteria when you buy new hardware. Or don't if it isn't.
Linux doesn't have significant enough consumer market share to pressure hardware manufacturers into providing support for them, and it also is a free operating system -- not one helmed by a massive multi-national corporation that can use billions of dollars to pressure hardware manufacturers into following their whims.