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I just got a pop up ad from Windows, for PC gaming and buy their Xbox controller. (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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A Windows pop up, right above the system tray. Holy fuck. I would have screen shot it but I was in disbelief.

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[–] -4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Unfortunately, while people tout things like Wine as a fairly simple and easy way to play games on Linux...the fact of the matter is that trying to play games on Linux continues to be absolute hell. Sure, some games work great out of the box. But the majority of games require a shitton of tinkering to even run, and many won't even work at all. And your specific hardware matters as well.

I used to dabble in Linux from time to time. And I'm not even a bit gamer or anything, but app incompatibility (especially with games) was one of my biggest gripes with it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is a very outdated take. With SteamPlay and Proton most games these days are literally just click Install click Play. The main exceptions are VR and certain competitive games with invasive AntiCheat where the devs has not enabled Linux support.

    These days you should not need fiddle with Wine directly, Proton, Lutris etc should handle Wine for you

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I knew I had used a newer service, but I couldn't remember what it was called. I shouldn't have name dropped Wine like that because I knew I'd get corrected lol.

    The last time I tried to play games, I didn't use wine directly either although I couldn't recall the name of the service (maybe it was Lutris), so I didn't mention it. But even though it was not directly interacting with Women, I still had great difficulty in game compatibility.

    It might be that popular, newer games easily work on Linux. But I had always been attempting to play older games that I had acquired outside of Steam. Never went over well.

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