Even if they did work, no way I would ever use kernel level anticheat
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If they did, maybe their communities would be less toxic.
This really isn't a W. Even though I don't play any of these games, Ive had friends who have had a real interest in switching to Linux, but didn't because they couldn't play LOL or Valorant.
It's not really linux's fault by any means, but it's no W.
The joke is that those games suck so bad that even having the option to play them on any form of Linux would make said OS worse
LoL specifically may be for the best. I don't know anyone who got into that game in a healthy way or thought they enjoyed it in retrospect after switching to a new game.
CoD and CS with super powers sure but not League of Legendary Toxicity
Dota 2 is working totaly fine so whats up about that π?
And no FIFA or whatever the fuck it is called now
I play COD on Linux, just older ones that have mod tools.
These games do some SCP-level containment for everyone sane in this hobby.
The problem is that games like LoL or Valorant are kinda made so that you "need" to have a dedicated LoL PC. You're not supposed to install these games on your main PC. Because these games are so highly competitive with real cash prizes involved, the devs ask for more control over your PC than typical games. It's not a Windows vs Linux thing, it's about control.
I'm not condoning this practice but it helps to understand why the situation is like this.
What percentage of players even do those competitive things though? Surely you could have an option to turn the orwellian anticheats off for regular players and only enabled for the sweaty wankers competitive players.
It's deeper.
- Stopping you from running without checks it makes it harder to develop cheats.
- Keeping it off linux keeps them from having to support linux (small base, big effort)
The profit isn't there, so they're not going to do it.
idk but there's probably dozens of those. I don't know what Rito are thinking and I kinda don't want to. Intrusive anti cheat doesn't work but those companies don't care. Unfortunately, in the rat race between cheaters and anti cheat devs, actually developing a game solidly such that cheating is basically impossible has not been thought of yet. I also suspect """"""micro"""""" transactions are a major driving factor here.
What do you mean it doesnβt work? As much as I hate having to keep a windows partition for the occasional game of league, Vanguard has made a huge difference in Masters+ games.
Anti-cheats will always be bypassed, also, you can have the cheats on a totally different computer (which can be a single board one too btw) that act as periferials so the game can't even notice it...
I get turned on by control. That's why I'm permenantly erect in this Heaven of a police state we're creating.
I wanted to play Fortnite again but after seeing Epic to approve the AI Slop in their shop, I deleted my account and never looked back.
I do however wish I could play rust, tarkov(less so these days), HUNGER, and battlefield 1, but I can deal without those things I guess.
Would Starcraft work on Linux?
Both works well, though Blizzard launcher is a bit wonky from my experience. Something about a process went to sleep.
If youβre launching it from the Battle.net launcher, you can run it through Lutris. I play WoW on Linux just fine.
Fair warning, Iβve run into an issue with the installer before, canβt recall what it was, but I remember I was able to find the solution after googling it real quick. (Iβve done it like twice, once on my computer and once on my steam deck and the second time was a how did I forget kinda moment)
Battle.net has something finicky where you have to run the installer slightly different than normal, but once itβs installed I havenβt had an issue.
But Stellar Blade also doesn't work and I really like the... erm... battles !
I played through all of Stellar Blade on Linux and it has a platinum rating on protonDB
Ironic that this post is in itself being toxic to people that enjoy the titles mentioned.
I enjoy cod and lol and even Fortnite but cannot play them on Linux. Iβm sad that I canβt enjoy the things that I enjoy. I still play league on my MacBook but itβs annoying having to switch systems for one game. I would love to be able to play ** any ** game of my choosing and not be harassed about it.
Try getting help for trivial Linux issues and you have a 50/50 chance of having a Linux elitist eat you alive for not already knowing what they know. RTFM and scoffing.
Linux has the same toxic ratio of users that the games this post is pointing out.
The reason those games aren't on Linux is because of horrendous security overreach, and if they did work it would mean something, somewhere has been compromised in order to make that possible. I'm thankful they don't work because the last thing I want is for game devs to have kernel-level access to my machine so they can dictate what I'm allowed to do on my computer.
I don't think that's what the user is asking for though. I read it as wishing that the games didn't have those security requirements, so that they could play the games on Linux.
The joke in the meme isn't "thank you to Linux maintainers for not compromising security", its a joke about those games themselves.
Also their point about toxicity is valid, and I've found that it varies by distro. Without being specific, in case I just had a bad experience, some support communities were very hostile to users asking questions. If the new person didn't phrase their question perfectly, using all the correct terminology, the support person refused to answer the question. It was a thread of "You said X, but X actually means Y, so I don't understand your question. Did you mean Z", when it is obvious from context what they meant.
As an ex league addict I do think that league makes people worse and I hope Riot's CEO will hang.
maybe if they did we could break 5% market share to 6!
Can I play KoL on Linux? That's all I care about. Need to get off windows with all these horse and donkey videos I make for a legitimate business.
Not sure what that game is, but thereβs a website called Proton DB that tracks what games work on Linux and how well. Thereβs also Lutris for everything else.

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