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[–] [email protected] 114 points 3 weeks ago (35 children)

Bro, I'm so fucking close to removing Microsoft from my life

[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

Do it, just don't play the games that don't work on Linux. I switched 15 years ago and didn't look back. There are so many games at this point why bother with the ones that only work on Windows?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The only game I actively played that didn't work on Linux was destiny 2, and switching to cachyOS has really helped me kick that toxic game out for good.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

For some reason it seems to me like toxic games are less likely to run on Linux compared to the average

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

It comes down to how much the publishers care about their own product. Devs shoveling third party kernel anti-cheat into their product often cause those games to be Linux incompatible. Devs bundling their own unnecessary launcher with the game and requiring it to run the launcher in order to run the game sometimes cause those games to be Linux incompatible. It often isn't even the devs themselves making this decision, which is why I blame the publisher more than the developers in most cases.

But with how robust Proton has become these days there isn't a whole lot outside of those two cases that will make a game not run on Linux. It's pretty intentional at this point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I got that game for free and I overpaid.

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