Expanding upon your mix, Some say that Linux distros should or shouldn’t comply with age verification. Should or shouldn’t be libre and copy left. Should or shouldn’t accept llm authored contributions. There is nothing wrong with talking about the politics of Linux.
The climate crisis and how it is made worse by a well-known figure in this field is definitely on topic.
I thought your joke was funny 👍
Can confirm, if you search steam in Ubuntu, it automatically gives you their buggy 3rd party snap. I didn’t realize it until steam link didn’t work, and all the file paths for debugging were really weird.
Also installing Ubuntu on hardware runs the same risk as installing windows on hardware: hardware may or may not be supported or easy to get going.
You’re right; i misread and thought this was the steam machine which has only been out for a year
Only 4 times? That’s within an order of magnitude. Maybe steam is onto something.
Maybe valve’s solution to the Anticheat problem is to increase the number of Linux gamers, thus increasing the voices asking publishers to support running their games on the steam deck.
I don’t usually like competitive games, but there is one now that i actively want to play (just came out with a pve mode) and the devs/publishers have specifically disabled Linux support in the kernel level malware.
The anti-cheat is Battle-eye. How does it detect that it is inside a VM?
I’m thinking that dual booting on a spare drive will be all around easier.
That’s incredible. Not enough clocks for the baddies
That’s cool, i had never heard of “windows to go” before – I may try that out!
Respectfully that’s not the goal of any boycott I’ve ever heard of.
Boycotts are for achieving some kind of change you want to see in the world, with a group of people organizing to protest something by not buying it, and encouraging others to also oppose buying it. E.g., boycotting Starbucks to pressure them to change their anti-union positions.
Otherwise, not buying something is just a personal preference, political statement, or moral stance, not attached to any outcome.
I don’t really understand the question.
If there were some kind of Linux gamers petition that was attracting signatures, maybe me joining in would have an effect on persuading the publisher, maybe not.
I don’t think me buying it or not buying it in a vacuum will have any effect on them deciding to enable the settings in their Kernel level anti cheat to allow Linux compatibility.
Whether the game dies or not definitely won’t be affected by whether i buy a copy and play, or not. I don’t even want to play the pvp modes which is the majority of the game.
General solutions are what i want. There are no Linux workarounds for this game. Me naming the game would only derail the conversation even more than me not naming it already has. Thanks :)
Thanks for the tip! I’ve had some bad experience with ext4 drivers on windows, so good to here that the btrfs drivers are better.
Also afaik proton can be used outside of steam, but I’m not an expert.
I was watching a let’s play recently. What a wild game
I was waiting to see if it would be supported, and it turns out it could easily be supported, but the devs disallow linux support.
It sucks.
Would you be willing to link one that you used?
Personally i think it would be worth it to experience it before it dies; it is part of a franchise that I enjoy and one of my tech podcasts just had an offtopic episode where they talked about how much they liked it as a game, and whether or not it would die and what that says about the games industry.
I know I don’t have to play it. But i have extra hdds lying around, and the price is affordable especially on sale, so why not?
I mostly want to play it solo/single player anyway; i don’t really care for pvp.
Thanks for the advice!
Just realizing that the PC i built myself as a teen for about $1000 back then would probably be like $2000 in today’s money, not even counting the recent spike in RAM and storage.
$1000 today is like $500 back then…