• realitaetsverlust@piefed.zipEnglish
    57·
    2 days ago

    I’m never going to understand how people can be so addicted to a game that they would rather deal with ads and AI on OS level

    • thejml@sh.itjust.works
      32·
      2 days ago

      Momentum and lack of time and awareness.

      Most people don’t associate Windows as anything they can change. It’s what came with their PC, it currently works, it does what they want, the only thing they do is play that game and maybe surf the web… and even if they do know and care, when they get home late from work, the first thing they think is “let’s eat and then unwind with a game and go to bed”.

      If more computers came with Linux from the factory, you’d see a better uptick because it’s done, it works, etc.

    • KernelTale@programming.devEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      I am addicted to League of Legends. I do spend wast majority of my time on Linux but I dual boot when I want to play League into my 60GB partition. It’s not like I have not tried to quit but it is an addiction.

      • dgdft@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        2 days ago

        As a recovering Leagueaholic:

        Friendly reminder that League worked perfectly on Linux for many years. Riot yanked support for zero reason other than a generic “fuck you” stance.

        Come vote with feet when you’re ready :); I can only speak for myself but the grass has been much greener.

  • felbane@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 days ago

    Meanwhile, me running Fedora 24/7 and still playing Fortnite just fine with my kids: 🌕👀

    • SystemQ@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 day ago

      How do you run it on Linux? Last I checked it had a kernel level anticheat and the CEO is a Linux hater.

      • felbane@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 day ago

        It runs just fine with Chrome + an extension to spoof a Windows user agent + either Amazon Luna or GeForce Now. Probably any other “play remotely in browser” service as well, but those are the ones I’ve used.

        For what it’s worth I also played with this method when I was running Windows, because I don’t want to install a rootkit just to play a kids game.

        I have tried it with Chromium and Librewolf, it works okay but I would get random input lag sometimes. Fortnite is basically the only reason the Chrome flatpak exists on my system.

        Ping for @[email protected]

        • 87Six@lemmy.zip
          3·
          22 hours ago

          Oh… Well that’s not really on linux lol, you’re just streaming I/O from a server… Thanks though I guess

          • felbane@lemmy.world
            2·
            21 hours ago

            I’m not sure if there’s functionally any difference, but technically yes it’s not running “on” Linux.

            My experience is exactly the same as it would be on Windows so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

            • 87Six@lemmy.zip
              2·
              6 hours ago

              You get massive latency, and you pay for a service not for something you own, so yea…

              • felbane@lemmy.world
                2·
                3 hours ago

                I’m not saying it’s suitable for someone trying to be a professional fortnite player, but it’s perfectly playable without noticeable latency.

                Fortnite is free on GeForce now (I think for X hours per day/session), and fully unrestricted on Luna if you already have prime.

                End of the day it lets me enjoy spending time playing a game with my kids that they love, and doesn’t cost me anything or require me to dual boot. It’s not for everyone but it’s an option for some.

        • felbane@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 day ago

          Nope, I decided to go straight into the deep end a couple years ago. I tried out a few different distros, ran Bazzite for a good while but was having issues with openvpn and my workplace’s old-ass endpoint, switched to Fedora + Plasma and haven’t touched windows at home ever since. Still have to deal with it at the office but at least that’s not my problem to manage.

          Homelab runs debian pretty much exclusively, which is stable and reliable.

    • Shortstack@reddthat.com
      151·
      2 days ago

      Just like me the OP wants to move off of windows but there’s a game that just doesn’t work right on Linux, so keeping the ringwindows is what ends up happening

    • blarth@thelemmy.club
      9·
      2 days ago

      Moving from Windows to Linux would be simple if not for some video games (and probably design tools).

      • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de
        61·
        2 days ago

        Design tools are getting better. I find Gimp usable with PhotoGIMP plugin, Inkscape being somewhat useable for basic svgs made for web (mostly icons), blender is great, but I don’t know it yet, so cannot comment properly. It’s getting there, just slowly. I made a bunch of one-task scripts with imagemagick and it’s a breeze! It’s very easy with any GPT. So it’s not that bad as it was a decade ago like.