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Grass ,

hah it just gets worse with every word

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

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 ,
@DaedalousIlios@pawb.social avatar

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.

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.

Asphalt ,

Later gets bought by ______ when ?

JoYo ,
@JoYo@lemmy.ml avatar

finally, a Linux distro to kill god.

MonkCanatella ,

At long last, linux with microtransactions

stallmer ,

So…it’s Bazzite?

Vittelius OP ,

It’s bazzite with a custom UI instead of Steam Big Picture and no desktop mode. Their big claim seems to be that they say that they have solved anti cheat on Linux: the system generates a checksum of the kernel space, the anti cheat then compares this checksum with the one on file. No custom kernel module needed on the part of the anti cheat dev. At least in theory.

xavier666 ,

I was discussing this a few months back; an immutable fs is way more secure for gaming compared to Windows.

Blisterexe ,

Desktop mode is coming, its just not implemented yet

priapus ,

I’m interested in them finding a way to get AC working, but I really dislike this method of doing so. There are a ton of kernel variations, so this would really only work on specific distros and devices. This becoming standard would likely mean being unable to use optimized kernels, different schedulers, and other kernel modules like the ZFS drivers.

chellomere ,

I’m having a hard time understanding how this would work. udev will load kernel modules depending on your hardware, and these modules run in kernel space. Is there an assumption that a kernel module can’t cheat? Or do they have a checksum for each possible kernel module that can be loaded?

Also, how do they read the kernel space code? Userspace can’t do this afaik. Do they load a custom kernel module to do this? Who says it can’t just be replaced with a module that returns the “right” checksum?

Crozekiel ,

Anti-cheat doesn’t actually need to eliminate cheating, it just needs to make the masses think it works by slightly raising the bar for entry into cheating. Cheating is still rampant, players just feel better about it and complain about smurfs more because they dont think its possible to get around kernal level anti-cheats.

Honestly I’d be much happier if the industry moved away form terrible anti-cheat software in general.

Vittelius OP ,

Here is the quote I paraphrased in my comment (I’m sure I got something wrong):

The immutable file system from Fedora Silverblue will be very helpful in implementing our anti cheat system but it is not our anti cheat system. We are planning to generate signatures for each version of our OS (easy with Silverblue) as well as all the DLLs we install dynamically. Basically using our SDK, a game developer will be able to obtain a signature of the current config on the device then call our backend to verify that this is a genuine Playtron version.

theverge.com/…/playtron-explains-how-immutable-fi…

pastermil ,

Aeon

innermeerkat ,

https://jlai.lu/pictrs/image/2079feb6-fd16-481d-a9ac-c5bfbb84c822.gif

yournamehere ,

i’ll do my own css framework!

not because it makes sense, but because of godcomplex.

/s

istanbullu ,

nice!

apotheotic ,

Cool can they give up on blockchain games now?

rotopenguin ,
@rotopenguin@infosec.pub avatar

Hahahaha NO

Feathercrown ,

“There’s no login screen, how do I unlock it?”

“It’s square enix, they expect you to have a keyblade”

zalgotext ,

Those of pure enough heart to weild a Keyblade will know how to login - all you need to do is trust your heart, and follow the light!

OprahsedCreature ,

“Wait why is that pirate flag glowing?”

Dariusmiles2123 ,

I’m not really into PC gaming, but the more gaming possibilities you have on Linux, the better it’ll be👍

wallmenis ,

Finally! Some competition with Steam OS! Hopefully only good things will come out of this!

Rayspekt ,

Introducing distro-specific Epic exclusives.

wallmenis ,

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