A few weeks ago there was an update that broke Apex on Linux for a few days, but it works now. Apex has been running well on Linux for over a year now.
Damn, mine also has a Windows slice this year because one of the games I was playing with my wife didn’t run well enough on the Deck so we played it on her desktop. It runs on Linux, it’s just that it was a bit on the heavy side for the deck so the fps were bad and her desktop was already plugged to the TV
I use Linux because I like it, games are just a bonus. I’ve been Linux only before Steam came to Linux, and I’ll be here if it ever leaves. It works well for me.
And you are a champion among men but there will forever be an obnoxious minority that will never be able to cope with the fact that other people don’t share their preferences.
Eh, just ignore those people, they’re generally quite toxic. And it’s not unique to Linux users, go to any windows-specific community/forum and you’ll see similar fanboyism, they just say it from a different high horse.
My wife uses Windows, I use Linux, and I use macOS at work. They’re all fine, I just prefer Linux. I have a Windows install as well in case I need it for any reason, though I haven’t booted into it for a year or two (last time was to try to get Minecraft Bedrock set up for my kid for crossplay, but their friend ended up flaking).
Im not aware of any. Most clones have a very different architecture (and programming language, most clones dont run on the JVM) than Minecraft, even tho some projects go for feature parity and support the original Minecraft multiplayer protocol.
So, no licencing problem Im aware of, mods are free to be shared under whatever licence and many are FOSS, but a technical problem.
I think the other response was quite accurate. Different language and architecture makes it harder. There are mods made for minetest that can work with MineClone2, so there may be some stuff you’ll enjoy, but usually they have to specify it’s available for MineClone2. Here is a page if you want to have a look: content.minetest.net/packages/Wuzzy/…/hub/
Minetest modding is actually quite nice to do from what I’ve heard.
itd be easier to port the mods if anything, since Minetest is meant to be a lot easier to mod and extend than Minecraft. In fact, many of these Minecraft-like games for Minetest are an amalgamation of dozens of individual mods
Thanks for the heads up! I appreciate it. I will check it out. Am an old school minecraft player from the beta days, a server admin and so on. Since I switched to linux and the foss world, microsofts minecraft really rubs me the wrong way. „Look what they did to my boy“ style.
Yeah, its sad. I‘m still playing from time to time but the telemetry and the regular „authentication servers down“ sh*t is really trying to tell me something I suppose.
considering most Minecraft mods directly mess with the Minecraft code as opposed to going through a well defined API (forge and fabric only provide so much) you can’t really make that work without outright stealing Minecraft code
the best you can make would be resourcepack and datapack compatibility. maybe whatever molang stuff bedrock’s up to
Thanks for explaining. This helps understanding the situation. It kind of makes me sad that microsoft is ruining minecraft bit by bit it seems. I recently got „informed“ that minecraft is now collecting telemetry without my consent. It was kind of the breaking point tbh.
It’s a great device! I actually didn’t use it quite as much as I did last year, but it still accounted for 31% of my total time. I’m hoping for a slightly bigger screen if the SD2 comes out, but it’s very good as is.
There will probably not be a SD2 in the next year. And i hope it isnt coming out soon as the SD OLED got released relatively recently and it would be just a “why” when they release 2 “New” handhelds in like 1-2 years. And the OLED is already the perfect console to game. It has compatibility with like 95% of games and it can run them with ease on good optimized games on high and not optimized on low - medium, touchpad is accurate, the trackpads are the best and repairability and upgradability is just great! The only thing i would want is a new Steam Controller, in a nutshell SD but without the display.
I’m perfectly fine with waiting several years, I agree that it would be way too soon otherwise. I have the LCD and I’m happy with it, when this one breaks or I decide to upgrade I’ll take a look at an OLED and see if I think it’s worth it for me.
I’ve been very impressed with the trackpads for a lot of games. I even find myself using them on games that were designed for controllers because there’s just nothing like a mouse sometimes.
That could definitely be a possiblity! While I can’t say I would use it a huge amount, VR is something that I would like to tinker with in the future. My understanding is that it still needs some work on Linux, but that may be changing.
Steam could pusht stuff like that too! They pushed linux compatibility with steamdeck and i could see that they push it with their vr headset. and they just need to improve the linux compatibility and then theoretically both steamos and all other linux distros can run easily steamvr
I could definitely see it happening that way. I don’t think anything has been announced either way, but I know I had seen some rumors or speculation about a possible semi self-contained VR headset from Valve. If that turns out to be fact, I could see them using Linux as the base for it.
The only game I play on Windows nowadays is Rocksmith 2014. That's because, due to the nature of the hardware, it is a bitch to setup even on Windows. Proton just isn't having any of it.
I wonder if that’s why I like FreeBSD so much. I grew up with Windows, but someone in high school (old guy at the local community college I attended at the time) encouraged me to try FreeBSD and I really liked how different it was. I basically only use Linux now, but I still judge Linux by FreeBSD standards and I’d use FreeBSD if it had decent gaming support.
I don’t think they overstate hatred of windows, they just overstate their willingness to try anything else. I think it’s a matter of Stockholm Syndrome, where they hate their captor, but they’ll also defend it to the death because they’re attached to it.
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