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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Linux isn't a solution if you play competitive multiplayer games, which most people do.

Edit: keep being classy basement trolls, you're only proving my statements about the shittiness of the linux community with every downvote.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

which most people do.

Lolwhut?

Most people who play competitive multiplayer games (a minority of total users) do so on console

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

"But the controller is an inferior aiming device"

"Yeah and the foot is an inferior ball handling device, but soccer still exists as a game"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I'm upvoting you because I know what you're trying to say. Personally I don't have a lot of time to game anymore but I vote with my wallet and I try to only buy games on steam that are linux native. I have found a lot of great indy games this way and I don't feel like I'm "missing out". Still, I get it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

there are 3 billion people playing videogames, most of them playing casual af shit like candy crush (https://explodingtopics.com/blog/number-of-gamers).

About "competitive" multiplayer games: have you tried proton? I myself was sticking with Windows untill i eventually tried it.

Linux is not a solution if you have a skill issue. The longer people have this kind of mindset you have, the longer Microsoft will pretend to be a monopolist, the longer they will behave like total shitheads towards their customers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is proton also a work around for easy anti-cheat now?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It literally is. Played Hunt: Showdown and Warthunder with no problems at all

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Lol yeah "most people" definitely do not play competitive multiplayer games. Are the other children in your friend group literally the only other humans you've ever met?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

"most people" = "most teens". I don't know any adult that plays competitive multiplayer games other than maybe CSGO.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am not sure if most people play competitive multiplayer games

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds like something a Bronze leaguer would say

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fair, but also depends on which one's.
~40-45% of them do actually work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Care to cite sources for that? Haven't seen people playing "competitive multiplayer games" from most people in a while, now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You probably live in some weird outlier community. 88% of Americans are competitive gamers now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, are your gaming statistics hurt?