• Ulrich@feddit.org
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    4 days ago

    Then you must have forgotten that 5 years ago you had to go into the settings and enable Steam Play, which is completely ridiculous, and incredibly unintuitive.

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      4 days ago

      One setting… Five years ago… I mean, if we’re being that pedantic, I also need to install the game before I launch it.

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        4 days ago

        Its not pedantic. I’ve seen entire videos made trashing Linux for this single reason, because they didn’t know the setting existed. And how would they? It doesn’t give any sort of prompt and “Steam Play” is just nonsense words that don’t indicate anything having to do with linux.

        That’s just the tip of the iceberg, especially when looking at games outside of Steam. Because that becomes WAY more complicated. And we should want people to play more than just Steam games.

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          4 days ago

          We clearly have differing opinions on what the word “simple” means, as per your original reply.

          I would argue that games outside of steam is almost as simple as steam, if not for the fact that you need to know what software to download in advanced.

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            4 days ago

            We clearly have differing opinions on what the word “simple” means

            “Simple” was my reply to a very specific statement of “hit the play button in Steam”, it was not a generic statement. You’re purposefully taking what I said out of context.

            I would argue that games outside of steam is almost as simple as steam

            And I would call that a blatant lie.

            if not for the fact that you need to know what software to download in advanced

            And a long list of information on how to configure it. Hence the tutorial.

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              4 days ago

              What kind of gaes do you play? I’ve not needed to configue a single game in years, just download and play. I even pirate games and thattoo is just download and play. What kind of configuration are you talking about?

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                4 days ago

                If you already play games on Linux then you already know. There’s no need for me to explain it. Just watch the video in OP.