I’ll buy Windows games at full price only if the developer has made efforts to better support Linux users (say by fixing a bug that only affects Linux users).
I did go looking when I first got the phone (was a Samsung user for ~10 years before this) but I couldn’t find anything immediately obvious.
Honestly, I’m not as annoyed by it as I was when I first got the phone. I have Tasker managing my connectivity 99% of the time, so I rarely have to use this toggle.
Thanks for checking - I’m on an FP3/Android 10 at the moment and eyeing moving to LineageOS because of the whole google fingerprint sensor downgrade issue.
Since you’re on Lineage already, any major/minor complaints about the experience in LOS 20?
I’m kinda curious as to whether apps like Nebula will work… currently OK on my rooted device with no magisk hiding necessary, but on LOS i’m not sure if proprietary google bits like widevine will be missing etc.
I only got my FP4 a couple of weeks back and have not had time to play around with it that much, I had an LG G6 before that and it decided to break so I needed something quickly.
My biggest issue is that it seems that the FP4 camera is not supported that well in LOS. The best I seem to get is OpenCamera, where I can take 4000x3000 12MP photos, everything else seems to only take lower resolution pictures. The phone is supposed to have a 48MP camera. From what I’ve read though it seems the original software is a bit hacked together to acutally get 48MP out of the sensor… I have to admin I cannot compare to the original software, as the first thing I did when I got the phone was unlock the bootloader and install LOS.
As for the google bits, I tried very shortly without it, but quickly noticed google services are needed for many things so I just installed them by installing MindTheGapps. I haven’t tried Netflix or Nebula though, so I don’t know if widevine is working, and I do not have root.
Wine and DXVK made it increadably easy to support Linux and if a company doesn’t even put in that much effort or intentionally breaks the game for you it’s certainly not worth your money! I pirate rather than use the refund window but the principal is the same since I do buy good games after all.
Gaming on Linux has evolved by leaps and bounds. We’re now at the point where only a select few Windows games (usually due to the anti cheat) won’t run.
I didn’t get this pop-up before I upgraded to Android 13, and I have a Motorola phone that runs close to stock Android. So that’s why I thought this was a Google thing.
Honestly, the 2 hour refund window is the perfect length to see how bad the Linux compatibility is. A half hour to try a few tweaks, if I care enough to. Another hour to see if there are subtle bugs or intermittant crashes.
I definitely have tried to run a few games I wouldn’t have bothered with otherwise.
The infinite refund window offered by piracy also works, mind you
Also sometimes due to DRM/launcher shit the pirate version actually works much easier on wine/proton. I’ve downloaded cracked versions of games I actually bought in the past due to this
The latter - downloading the windows cracked version and yeah, wine or proton. It works beautifully.
That’s when there is no native linux version obviously; these days you can also find pirate versions of those when they exist (most notably on rutracker).
I think there is one person putting out repacks especially made for Linux mind you (can’t remember their name though found it, it’s johncena141), including specific wine versions and so on in the repack, though I’ve never used them
I hate to admit I had to do it with Nioh Complete Edition. I dont know but my store downloaded copy just refused to load. When it did, it had 15fps for a while and then crashed. Meanwhile, when I played the pirated version, it worked good. It stuttered for the first 20 minutes, but once all the caches were built it worked amazingly. Bummer I cant use the online feature.
I had this with the Sims, I bought and paid for the game legit but trying to run it through steam it kept trying to load the origin store for auth or something which was a pain in the ass and I couldn’t get it to run reliably.
I ended up using a crack just because it ran without any BS!
Refund window is great until the devs decide to change up their anticheat to something less compatible later (fall guys, rocket league, nearly happened to battlebit) or there is instability that only appears late in the game you can’t find in 2 hours (Jedi fallen order, Horizon zero dawn) or the publisher decides to update their stupid launcher and break compatibility that way (EA comes to mind)
Even if something works today, with how modern game devs operate it’s certainly not guaranteed to work tomorrow, and that’s a problem.
Customers have more power than companies would like you to believe. Politely explain the situation to customer support, and ask for a refund. If they refuse, mention that you purchased a game that was promised to work for at least several months, and you haven’t received the product you paid for. Because of that, you’re considering charging back through your bank. If that doesn’t work, say you’ll charge back if they don’t refund. If that doesn’t work, actually charge back through your bank. Banks are surprisingly cool about it as long as you don’t do it too often. Of course, you need to buy the game directly (no account balance) from a credit card.
Just don’t be a jerk to the support person, because it’s almost certainly not their fault. It’s also less likely to get you what you want. They’d rather give you what you want so you go away, and you just need to give them reasons that they can relay to their supervisor if necessary.
Not Google, this has been added by the manufacturer of your phone. Probably they got too many complaints like “I disabled data and now there’s no internet” because average users don’t read what’s on screen
or more accurately users just have no grasp of what things come from. No shortage of times in tech support where I’ve heard things like “Yes I know the internet is down, I’m not trying to go to the internet I’m trying to go to facebook”.
I feel your pain - “Daaaaad! My internet’s on but I can’t get to YouTube” - but I feel this one’s a little less obvious than that. It’s not always apparent whether a given feature is stock OS or vendor specific.
I’m not able to reproduce this in my pixel 5, maybe Google removed this as a pixel exclusive feature? Or maybe because I used that adb command to separate the “internet” button in two buttons (WiFi and data)
Very much possible that Google changed it, since the buttons appear to be combined on Pixel devices. LineageOS and multiple other vendors definitely have it.
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