Linux is all good if you only play singleplayer games. My friends started playing the finals yesterday and it doesn't run on linux because of EAC. Windows can run all my games without any proton switching and all the nvidia features like ray reconstruction and pathtracing with frame generation just works (alan wake 2 looks so good).

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[–] 37 points 2 years ago (1 child)

OK. Use the OS that fits your use case.
But posting "Linux sucks, Windows is better" on a Linux community isn't helpful.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (31 children)

    Cool, so since you left linux why are you posting this here?

    We all know windows is more compatible by design of the capitalism machine, we left it by choice for a reason.

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    [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    it doesn't run on linux because of EAC

    Nah, it doesn't work because the developer doesn't want it to. EAC works really well on Linux, the developer just has to enable it, which takes literally less than 10 seconds.

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    All the developer needs to do is push a button to make EAC work. They're probably busy hotfixing the 1.0 but I'm sure it'll work soon, they are excluding all steam deck users by not pressing it

    Edit: apparently it's not EAC that is the problem. The game has its own anti-cheat which also potentially bans your account if you try to play on linux https://www.protondb.com/app/2073850

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    *Linux is all good if you don't play competitive multiplayer games where the developers don't want to enable EAC for Linux.

    There, fixed that for you.
    Surprised that people even still play Nexon trash to be honest.

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Why is everyone always so stuck to one side or the other? Dual booting is a thing. You can have your cake and eat it too.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Just FYI, the expression makes more sense the other way around:

    You can't eat your cake and have it too.

    And yeah, dual booting is absolutely a thing. That said, I find rebooting to play a game silly, so I just avoid stuff that doesn't work on Linux. I can totally see the opposite perspective as well.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    ...how else would you go about eating it? Smashing your face into the whole cake?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    The point is you can't eat your cake and still have it afterward, because it has been eaten. So the more common version OP referenced makes no sense because you obviously need to have your cake before you're able to eat it, so it's unclear what you're trying to say.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Can I have some cake?

    Sure, here you go. You can go ahead and eat it, too. Go on. It's chocolate.

    *having cake and eating it, too.

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  • Right, but then the cake is gone and you don't have it anymore, you just have a plate with crumbs. That's what the adage is trying to convey (you can't have it both ways). Either you save your cake for later, or you eat it not, you can't do both.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Bait post aside, I never really understood why people make a big deal of "switching" to Linux or back to Windows.

    An OS install is like 60 GiB. If you're a pro hacker gamer you probably have over a TiB of fast storage. Just keep the Windows install around and dual boot into it when/if you need it.

    Pains me to see people saying "I permanently switched to Linux and deleted my Windows install", when you can keep it around for emergencies or modding.

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  • Yup.

    I have only booted into my Windows install like 2-3 times in the past 5-10 years or so. But I still have it, it just lives on a separate SSD and I just forget it exists. I've only booted in to set up Minecraft Bedrock (kids wanted cross play, but their friends flaked), one time to run updates (was going to upgrade to Win 11, but it hated my processor; maybe my new one works), and to test a couple things in Windows. That's it.

    When Microsoft EOLs Win 10, I might go through the trouble of upgrading it again. I don't see much value in it, but it costs me nothing to keep it around. I'm not even sure if it still works after I upgraded the CPU and GPU, but I guess I'll find out the next time I try to boot it.

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So some random new game is enough for you to change your whole operating system?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I just kept Linux on my PC and bought an XBox because Windows isn't good for much else.

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  • I just don't play games that don't work on Linux. I use Linux for other reasons, gaming is just the cherry on top. I have 100 or so games on my wishlist and hundreds of unplayed games in my library that all work fine on Linux, so I'm not hurting for choice.

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