linux got just a little worse pretty recently: roblox is now playable on it
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2026
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I can overlook all of this.
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.
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.
That artifact factory, full of ghosting and stutters is overengineered? I swear Unreal 5 games only looks good when absolutely everything stays still...
i see, and never knew Unreal was horribly overengineered.(maybe due to graphics?)
Wouldn't be that bad, but it's a multiple decades old engine. In fact, it's first version even had software rendering for PCs without 3D accelerators.
Sometimes I wish I could play classic MapleStory. That's about it.
Apex runs on Linux. We used to play it, but then they blocked it actively because there were too many cheaters on the platform. I'm sure the cheater problem has been subsided now that it's blocked /s
If they "allow it", you can just play it again.
Because Linux does not allow their rootkit "anticheat"
Thatβs the same with all of them. Thereβs only anti cheat that disallows it
What excuse do you think the others have?
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.
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.
Lol, is that what you tell yourself every day to justify staying with Windows? Do you convince yourself by imagining Linux users suffering?
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.
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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
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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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.
Steam runs them just fine with Proton Experimental as well
Absolutely. I Installed the HoyoPlay launcher through Heroic and ZZZ runs flawlessly on my Steam Deck.
Last I played the game was single player... fuck these companies man
The game still is mostly single player. But, as most gacha games, Genshin Impact is online-only, mostly so that you couldn't cheat in any resources you want without paying them a hefty price.
It was like that from the very beginning.
Warframe - Linux: β οΈ
Conclusion, Linux wins.
I have faith in the general independent Linux developer landscape that eventually most all games will become compatible, whether AAA Devs want them to be or not.
They always want that. How can you guess that any aaa megacorp demonic multinational greedmachine entity will ever choose to make less money? It's not about that. It's about the control they give up of they don't assume 100% control of your computer and all traffic always on it.
You can run Genshin Impact on Linux
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.
They are addicted and hooked to a scam that Harvest their resources
the only times i've had trouble playing a game on linux are when the developer specifically fucks with it so it won't run on linux. the main reason for that is kernel-level anticheat software, which, from what i've heard, doesn't really help with cheating much anyways. my computer is my computer, i don't need microsoft or some game company going into my kernel. can't wait for some drm company to get hacked and have windows gamers up in arms because they got ransomewared.
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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.
Does that mean that Honkai games still can't be played on Linux? There goes my idea of giving Star Rail a try.
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