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[–] [S] 38 points 3 days ago (1 child)

Even if they did work, no way I would ever use kernel level anticheat

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    [–] [S] 34 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    If they did, maybe their communities would be less toxic.

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  • [–] [S] 80 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    I don't know about that. The Linux community has its own brand of toxic issues too. Try bringing up systemd or rust.

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  • [–] [S] 55 points 3 days ago*

    Systemd!? What did you just cram into PID 1, you bloated binary blob? You are nothing to me but just another sprawling dependency graph masquerading as an init system. I will chmod -x you out of existence with a precision the likes of which hasn't been seen since the Unix was written, mark my words. You think you can get away with saying "one process should do everything" over the internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of grey neckbeards across the mailing lists and your commit history is being traced right now so you better prepare for the fork. The fork that wipes out the pathetic little monolith you call an init system. You're fucking dead, kiddo.

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

    As a former MOBA enjoyer, IMO MOBA games inherently rage bait their players and make toxicity inevitable long term regardless of whose playing.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    I’m seeing a bunch of toxicity in the milsim Arma. But based on a recent interaction, that has more to do with cross play with PlayStation users than anything else.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 days ago* (1 child)

    I haven't played Arma in nearly ten years. The community, even in DayZ (mod) used to be relatively chill. Especially compared to more fast paced shooters. I can only remember one person I seriously would prefer die slowly and painfully who I met in Arma.

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  • [–] [S] 25 points 2 days ago

    I love Linux and all, but I think this post is kinda

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  • [–] [S] 33 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 days ago

    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

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    [–] [S] 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Dota 2 is working totaly fine so whats up about that 😐?

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    [–] [S] 11 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    And no FIFA or whatever the fuck it is called now

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 3 days ago

    Deadlock and cs2 is sweaty enough for me

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

    I play COD on Linux, just older ones that have mod tools.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 3 days ago*

    These games do some SCP-level containment for everyone sane in this hobby.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 2 days ago

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    What do you mean it doesn’t 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.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 days ago

    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...

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 3 days ago

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 3 days ago

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 days ago

    personally, I'm crushed that marvel tokon will not work on Linux :(

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 days ago

    why, otherwise you'd play it?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Would Starcraft work on Linux?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 day ago

    If you’re launching it from the Battle.net launcher, you can run it through Lutris. I play WoW on Linux just fine.

    Fair warning, I’ve run into an issue with the installer before, can’t recall what it was, but I remember I was able to find the solution after googling it real quick. (I’ve 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 it’s installed I haven’t had an issue.

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    [–] [S] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    But Stellar Blade also doesn't work and I really like the... erm... battles !

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    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. I’m sad that I can’t enjoy the things that I enjoy. I still play league on my MacBook but it’s 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.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

    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.

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

    maybe if they did we could break 5% market share to 6!

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    [–] [S] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

    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.

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