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Asphalt ,

Later gets bought by ______ when ?

DarthYoshiBoy ,

Playtron is all in on Crypto nonsense, so of course SquareEnix is coming along for the ride. I wouldn’t get too excited, like most “Web3” things, I expect that this too will flounder and die.

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ,
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

One can only hope.

S_H_K ,

Gaming on Linux will never be easy but as long as it goes forward any good news are welcome.

SkyeStarfall ,

Why would it never be easy? There’s no fundamental reason for why it can’t work as well as on windows, or any other operating system

DaedalousIlios ,
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I don’t get all this “gaming on Linux is hard” non-sense. All I have to do is set a specific flag on Steam and click play. That’s it. One step, and 99% of my library just works, sometimes better than on Windows.

If it isn’t on Steam, I search for it on Lutris and Lutris installs it for me, and I click play. And more often than not, it just works.

Hell, the mother fuckers that make Final Fantasy XIV’s quick launcher made that shit a flatpak! And it’s so fucking seemless, not a soul would know that game isn’t a native Linux game!

Where’s the difficulty?

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ,
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Yeah, not all games work on Linux in all situations though. It depends for example on

  • which distro you have,
  • whether you have an Nvidia or AMD GPU (for example, SWTOR evidently runs fine through Lutris, but didn’t last time I tried with an Nvidia GPU, so that might better with AMD—same thing happened with Dragon Age: Origins)
  • what driver for either you have installed (Nvidia is getting better, but good gods the flickering could be better with some of their driver versions—games may play without being playable, after all),
  • whether your computer’s firmware is even Linux-compatible, let alone Linux-friendly (I know Lenovo laptops used to suck in this regard—they might still, though I don’t).

So, no, although it’s gotten a LOT better in the last 5 years, the notion that it “just works” is only situationally correct, and is by no means correct to the extent that justifies ridiculing those who say that it is not so plug-and-play as what is claimed.

Furthermore, doing so only sets up new Linux users without the optimal hardware or firmware for disappointment due to unrealistic expectations.

ColeSloth ,

I was all set to re purchase the original ff7 on steam to play it again on my steam deck. Then I seen that the assholes require an internet connection to run it. My playstation sure as hell didn’t have an internet connection. Yo ho ho ho

Grass ,

hah it just gets worse with every word

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