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Linux is all good if you only play singleplayer games. My friends started playing the finals yesterday and it doesn't run on linux because of EAC. Windows can run all my games without any proton switching and all the nvidia features like ray reconstruction and pathtracing with frame generation just works (alan wake 2 looks so good).

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[-] KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago

OK. Use the OS that fits your use case.
But posting "Linux sucks, Windows is better" on a Linux community isn't helpful.

[-] caustictrap@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

More like anticheat is holding back the adoption of linux and linux adoption/recommendation will be easier if all the games works.

[-] semperverus@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

Cool, so since you left linux why are you posting this here?

We all know windows is more compatible by design of the capitalism machine, we left it by choice for a reason.

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[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 27 points 10 months ago

it doesn't run on linux because of EAC

Nah, it doesn't work because the developer doesn't want it to. EAC works really well on Linux, the developer just has to enable it, which takes literally less than 10 seconds.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's mostly true, but they also need to support it, which is a completely different ball of wax which involves QA testing, training support people, etc, perhaps with some dev work to ensure the experience is decent. It's extra work, and many devs don't want to deal with it.

Sometimes no support is better than poor support from a business perspective.

[-] gila@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

All the developer needs to do is push a button to make EAC work. They're probably busy hotfixing the 1.0 but I'm sure it'll work soon, they are excluding all steam deck users by not pressing it

Edit: apparently it's not EAC that is the problem. The game has its own anti-cheat which also potentially bans your account if you try to play on linux https://www.protondb.com/app/2073850

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[-] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 16 points 10 months ago

*Linux is all good if you don't play competitive multiplayer games where the developers don't want to enable EAC for Linux.

There, fixed that for you.
Surprised that people even still play Nexon trash to be honest.

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[-] Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works 15 points 10 months ago

Why is everyone always so stuck to one side or the other? Dual booting is a thing. You can have your cake and eat it too.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Just FYI, the expression makes more sense the other way around:

You can't eat your cake and have it too.

And yeah, dual booting is absolutely a thing. That said, I find rebooting to play a game silly, so I just avoid stuff that doesn't work on Linux. I can totally see the opposite perspective as well.

[-] Scolding7300@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

My linux usually boots very fast while Windows takes its sweet time, but still within 5m from power on to everything is up and warmed up.

So not something that stops me from rebooting to play a particular game

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

It's not boot time, but context switching (close apps and whatnot). I suppose I could hibernate, but I still lose access to my network services, like my kids' Minecraft server and network shares. And then Windows usually has massive updates because I launch it so rarely.

If I play on Linux, I just launch the game, and that's it.

Before Steam came to Linux, I just didn't play games very often. Now that most games work, I can just push play and I'm in a game, so I play a lot more games.

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[-] SigHunter@feddit.de 7 points 10 months ago

So some random new game is enough for you to change your whole operating system?

[-] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I just kept Linux on my PC and bought an XBox because Windows isn't good for much else.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

I just don't play games that don't work on Linux. I use Linux for other reasons, gaming is just the cherry on top. I have 100 or so games on my wishlist and hundreds of unplayed games in my library that all work fine on Linux, so I'm not hurting for choice.

[-] danikpapas@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Funny thing is that the game would probably work close to perfect if the devs just switched on the linux support in EAC. Sadly, it's just isn't worth for the devs. Linux user pool is too small and those who would play would generate new bug reports due to unconventional setup running through a compatibility layer.

[-] GustavoM@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago
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