Also no Roblox, if you were still on the fence.
Stop, I can only get so erect!
Actually you can play Roblox on Linux. There’s Sober.
I know it’s probably named in reference to wine, but I like the idea of a Linux Roblox program (emulator? I don’t know Linux or video games) as someone’s manic sobriety project*.
/* I don’t know if this is an identified thing, but most of the large number of recovering addicts I know sort of displace that manic type of love for the substance or behavior into one or more hobbies of some sort at first (examples include: repairing an old boat or classic car, building a house or cabin, making furniture or art, a bunch of types of exercise, joining a club, building furniture or bikes, or cooking) and gradually learn moderation afterwards.
I thought so too but I was able to get it running when my friends partner really wanted to play bingo in roblox with me. Worked fine after some setup
Lucky for me, my kids are past it.
There is if you consider Sober, but why would I download it?
Someone did mention that but I can still pretend. My kids are all past that age anyway.
Reasons:
- You are young and don’t know better.
- You are an adult and you know better
- You are cpitalizing on the users so much that testing in Linux seems like a good idea. Please see #2
Like 80% of the games I already play are random indie stuff. I buy maybe 1-2 new big studio games a year, and even those aren’t exactly AAA. Right now, feels like big studios aren’t trying hard to produce actually interesting games, just more franchise slop.
Steam machine got a solid “Oooooooo! Can’t afford one right now but I’m sure keeping an eye on this one!” out of me.
Honestly the whole “modern tech style” thing is making me feel feel off.
The controller looks nice tho. Supports linux and would go well with retroarch to emulate old games on thinkpad.
Hell maybe a raspberry pi connected to the TV monitor.
Did you want it to come in a Beige Box?
I personally like wood exterior or utilitarian sheet metal with no lights.
https://www.digitalfoundry.net/features/hands-on-with-steam-machine-valves-new-pcconsole-hybrid
The front panel comes off, you can have a steam machine with a wood exterior if you really want
Honestly I expect someone to make custom cases for it. If valve don’t release a model there will at least be someone doing a 3d printed model that fits the board.
Yeah, for looks, I’m not sure valve could stop a customization market from popping up even if they wanted to. Case in point: search for “steam deck custom shell”… Ugh, wasn’t planning on customizing my deck, but some of them look pretty good. I bet the steam machine will have ones that make it stand out and others that make it blend in with furniture.
Dbrand already announced a companion cube shell for the steam machine https://dbrand.com/shop/limited-edition/companion-cube
We love wood grain around here
I would absolutely fuck with a beige/Earth tone box.
Throw it in a G4 Cube case and we can talk.
It’s mostly heat sink and fan out the back, cube shape is no frills and works great for what it is.
I think the faceplates will be swappable so I can get that custom gabecube look.
Feels like a solid replacement for my Apple TV.
No League as well.
No League, no Valorant, no GTA Online, no Battlefield 6, no Rainbow Six Siege
So not much of value is lost
I’m already buying it, you don’t have to sell it to me.
I once tried Valorant, recommended by a friend. I liked it but the community didn’t like me (since I suck), so I didn’t play more.
Trying to uninstall it was such a mess that I think the kernel level anti cheat was in my windows install until I got rid of said windows install
Stop, I can only get so hard.
GTA V Online is not working - too bad! I play a lot of single player mode without any issues.
there is Dota though, proving once again that it’s the superior MOBA
Hmm… I’m getting the urge to play league again. It’s annoying that linux doesn’t run it because of their ridiculous anticheat.
It is quite fun if you don’t take it too seriously.
Ok but those Call of Duty games for the DS were always so interesting to me. The attempt to take such a bombastic console experience and squeeze it onto a handheld often produced janky results, but it was a charming kind of jank
I was on a forum, back in the day, focused on weird, or otherwise niche DS ports, and those games were easily the most popular.
They even had tournaments with the Developers, which was neat
Technically there is Call of Duty, just the older ones, which do still have people playing, and you can get bots for them, etc.
One has to be careful when going online on “old” CoDs, because most of them have an RCE exploit and won’t get (at least officially) patched
Oh how I would love to boot up the original MW2 and feel that old rush again but alas, without sandboxing (and even with) the experience is probably not worth my time or money.
you can play on plutonium or something. It has it fixed
just use Alterware and you don’t have to worry about that
That’s rather unfortunate, and probably should be illegal that they won’t patch it (although they’d never be held accountable) although I think the fact that I’m using Linux would likely make an RCE less severe anyway.
Probably not that severe, but I wouldn’t bite the bullet. I think running malware, or in this case, RCE exploits, should be given more testing under Linux Wine/Proton. Also depends on how permissive your system is, I think (i.e. SELinux vs normal kernel, file permissions etc.)
True, I’d imagine most default settings for most systems would allow a ransomware to happen anyway, since wine can likely access the home folder (and possibly other folders) by default.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ they’re cutting themselves out of a potential market, while I still have ton of other games to play.
You couldn’t pay me to play cod or fortnite.
That’s a you thing
Obviously. But apparently not only a me thing.
Sure we’re on Lemmy, but this isn’t that true to outside world people. Most of them play a few games at best, and most of them are made by companies with a lot of money
Looking at the recent success rate of indie games I’d say quite a few people are less than happy with the development of AAA titles in the last couple of years.
The Simpson’s update in Fortnite looks nice ngl.
Graphics don’t matter if the game isn’t fun.
I’ve never understood these memes. If you don’t want to play whatever game, don’t play it. How do you somehow convince yourself that you’re superior to others due to your inability to run certain programs?
Issa joke. Making fun at the expense of AAA games :)
I understand that it’s a joke, but the humor isn’t making sense to me, and I especially don’t see how it’s at the expense of AAA games
I guess it comes from a point where Linux gamers have been neglected by major studios for so long and now that there are enough other options they don’t have any power on them.
The joke is just “Call of Duty and Fortnite are shit / overrated” which you can disagree with
it’s associative, the negative associations with Call of Duty players cannot be transferred to a console that doesn’t support that game, so for people who want to avoid those associations it’s a plus
There’s definitely something to this. Like I’m often scared to be part of any group because inevitably someone in that group will be an asshole. I have played video games for a long time but I refuse to refer to myself as a “gamer” because of the associations.
I also notice I hate when something I love becomes too popular, precisely because it loses its initial associations with the group I was happy to associate with, and becomes associated with a larger group that I don’t feel connection with (or worse, becomes associated with a toxic fan base I actively don’t want to be associated with - e.g. Rick and Morty, I love the show but developed shame for enjoying it, once it became popular and its biggest fans created negative associations with liking the show; you can tell yourself to ignore the shame, but I admittedly no longer identify as a fan of Rick and Morty because of what it will communicate to people about me).
joke is that not being able to play things you don’t like are a bonus. it’s a joke about how much you dislike that. now if you excuse me, I have a frog to dissect
The thing is that with W10 going EOL, everyone is going to be forced to learn a new OS, regardless if they want to or not (W11has been out for years, if you havent jumped, there is likely a reason). Lemmy users being the socially concious crusaders that they are, are encouraging people to make a better choice than defaulting to Windows again (given all its very real issues of useability and data harvesting).
Not having access to preditory games due to self-imposed tech limitations isnt high on the list of reasons to choose linux, but its good shitpost material.
Linux users are a different breed.
G*mers are a different breed.
Linux G*mers. Holy jesus.
As a part time Linux gamer myself I couldn’t agree more
Regrettably this stops me from forcing my archaic belief system on my children.
I mean you can always do it anyway and take away their ability to play those games. They will hate you for now, but later when they grow up, they will probably still hate you but a little less.
The online multiplayer for the original version of Modern Warfare and other older games still works fine on Linux and even has community modded maps and modes.
Quote from a HN thread
My main game console right now is one of those little gaming boxes you can buy on Amazon for about $400, where I have installed NixOS + Jovian to get the “SteamOS” interface.
I really like it. It really does feel like a “game console”; usually when I’ve made my own console using Linux, it always feels kind of janky. For example, RetroPie on the Raspberry Pi is pretty cool, but it doesn’t feel like a proper commercial product, it feels like a developer made a GUI to launch games.
I have like 750 games on Steam that I have hoarded over the years, in addition to the Epic Games Store and GOG, which can be installed with Heroic, and the fact that I can play them on a “console” instead of a computer makes it much easier to play in my living room or bedroom. It even works fine with the Xbox One controllers; I use the official Microsoft USB dongle to minimize latency, it works great.
I think there actually is a chance that Valve could really be a real competitor, if not a winner.
I have one of the higher-end beelinks. Super small, quiet, doesn’t get hot and I can play modern AAA titles on it, driving my huge screen TV in my living room.
Can you quantify this? Which Beelink? Are you powering a 4K TV? When you talk about playing modern AAA games, which ones, and what settings do you run at?
Fortnite, Cyberpunk, Starfield, probably others I’m forgetting I believe the TV is 4K, yeah. It’s the Beelink SER9 AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 12core/24thread AI PC Turbo Freq 5.1GHz
Those Steam Machines are just normal PCs. There should be no reason why you couldn’t dualboot windows to play those few games that do not work on Linux.
The reason is, I don’t wanna.
There isn’t any game I want to play bad enough to install malware on my device.
I have heard that Windows tends to ‘nuke’ the EFI boot partition if it’s shared with Linux. I’m not sure if it’s valid to have two EFI partitions on the same disk, but if the box can handle a second EFI boot partition, that would be a safer option.
There is also the issue that normal windows shutdown does not mean shutdown, but “hibernate”. In this state, touching any of the partitions the windows was previously using could corrupt them if mounted in Linux. (The same applies in reverse, and would be even more dangerous.) This doesn’t prevent dual-booting, but some care should be taken that the swiched-from-OS was actually shutdown.
Windows is like the selfish little kid that won’t play well with others if they aren’t picked first.
Note that you can disable the hibernate shutdown (called fast startup) in windows in the control panel. IIRC it’s in control panel > startup > fast startup.
If I recall that was a bug. Generally windows does not randomly start rewriting boot partitions unless maybe you put it into repair mode from the boot menu and you have both partitions on the same disk.
Its the game cube 2, finally I waited so long.
You can install Windows on it if you really want to.
Linux gaming is best gaming.
Lutris my beloved
You might not play them, but others might. Exclusivity is always fucking bad, you’re not only normalising it, you’re celebrating it.
But hopefully this is the push they need. I got no horse in this race. Not games I’m playing and I’m not buying gabecube.
Then tell Epic and Infinity Ward/Treyarch (or whoever cranks those out like Madden games now) about it. It’s their fault these games are not supported on linux by requiring kernel level anti-cheat instead of server side anti-cheat.
Take Destiny for another example, runs perfectly fine on linux, until Bungie permabans your acct for playing on linux.
It’s not linux’s fault, it’s the shitass companies refusing to be good at things.
