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"I would like to switch to Linux, but it's just not good for gaming" (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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(The "Windows" slices of the pies are entirely made up by Baldur's Gate 3, which also runs well over Linux)

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[–] 36 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Is this Lemmy's version of Reddit's "pc vs console" I've been seeing this a lot lately. Why are you all so obsessed with who plays on what and what their opinions are?

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

    Because more people playing on Linux means more games get published for Linux, which is an outcome we want.

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  • [+] -14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Gonna have to get in line behind consoles first. PC gamers have been around for years, still at the bottom of the list when games get published. So....what's the point in saying "play on Linux because games also work here" when publishers don't care?

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  • [+] 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Well, at least get partity with Windows. It's unlikely to get Rockstar to launch on PC first, but it might mean more MP games work well on Linux.

    All I want is for enough people to use Linux so devs care enough to remove roadblocks for Linux, such as anti-cheat. I don't expect Linux to overtake Windows or anything, I just want my selection to not be limited just because I'm running Linux.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    More like play on Linux because windows gets more bugs,bloat, and built in spying every version and if I had the kind of money to afford the whole collection of apple products you inevitably end up with when chosing that path, I would have had kids instead and not been dumped by my ex for being born into a poor family and failing to gain anything from working other than worse health and not even breaking even financially. Linux is free too. Free is my favourite price.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    I just want more games to work on Linux, and more marketshare gets devs interested. I don't care what specific people use, just that enough use Linux to grow marketshare.

    Use what you want, but I'll encourage anyone who is interested to give it a try.

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  • [+] -10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's like when you discuss music with a metalhead, it's not that you just don't feel anything when you listen to metal, and you don't consider complex polyrhythms to just be objectively "better" because they're harder to play. It's that your music sucks ass and if it's not the right kind of metal it also sucks ass.

    Linux can play most games, but if you like playing games that Linux doesn't play then those games suck and you shouldn't want to play them. That's their perspective.

    Why do you want to play Fortnite or CoD warzone? Don't you know kernel level anticheat is a rOoTkiT?!? (As if they could even define such a thing without resorting to just pointing at shit they don't like and twisting the definition like a Baptist preacher trying to create theology.)

    You can't win with these types of people, Linux can play games! And if it can't it's YOUR FAULT FOR NOT EXCLUSIVELY PLAYING GAMES THAT LINUX CAN PLAY.

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

    Nah, you're getting too deep into your own feelings. Most threads I've seen where people start talking about Linux as a viable gaming option, it's because some commenter or the OP mentions a problem they're facing in Windows, which is directly solved or mitigated in Linux. Also, most of the time when people recommend Linux, it comes with warnings like "it has a learning curve" and "not everything works". The hard line Linux-or-bust types are definitely not the majority.

    Also, the very nature of Lemmy means the userbase probably skews towards more techy types who have been using Linux in their professional lives for years and have naturally come to harbor positive feelings for it. That drives the recommendation as well as anything else.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago

    Whatever you say, I've literally had people ask me "why do you play insert game here?" When I tell them why I haven't completely gotten off windows. It's happened multiple times. I'm not getting in my feelings, some of you guys are just insufferable.

    I love Fedora on my old gaming laptop and arch/SteamOS kicks ass on deck, but I'm not giving up my main game that I play for socializing with my friends just because the FOSS community assigns themselves moral superiority for not being on Windows.

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