Recently, i had to move from nixos to windows against my will simpy because of anti cheats. While i dont game that much, the few games i enjoy playing are all online with some kind of anti cheat. I used to dual boot but i was tired of having to wait for my slow hdd to load windows (i only have one ssd). I literally used linux for everything else but because of anti cheats i am forced to move to windows. I managed to make it a little better by using wsl2 and removing bloatware but it will never be the same as linux

  •  cooopsspace   ( @cooopsspace@infosec.pub ) 
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    10 months ago

    Don’t be so spineless.

    Plenty of games work without anti cheat on Linux and I only play them.

    You just buckled under the tiniest amount of pressure, but you would have to pry Linux out of my cold dead hands.

    • Not sure why there are so many downvotes. Are there really that many people in here of all places who think gaming is just triple-A games from companies that don’t respect their players and nothing else?

      Edit: wording

      •  mee   ( @mee@programming.dev ) 
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        I don’t like it because that’s the kind of elitist attitude that turns away new people from checking out Linux gaming. Imagine that as a response to “Hey I play these games and am interested in Linux”. You’re going to tell them: “switch to Linux and give up those games and if you don’t you’re not committed enough”?

        It’s gatekeeping “console-wars” fanboy mentality. Like a Linux Playstation fan attacking someone for playing an Windows Xbox Exclusive. As if that’s supposed to be their whole identity, and not just a way to play video games.

        There’s nothing wrong with having multiple consoles; there’s nothing wrong with dual-booting.

        • In my experience, most Windows-exclusive games work just fine under Wine. It’s not that big a deal.

          This thread isn’t even about Windows games per se, but about a few games whose anti-cheats are screwing over Linux users.

    • I could stop playing these games right now. As i said i’m don’t use my computer for gaming that much. I could be perfectly satisfied with only minecraft. But i play them with the homies and i can’t let them down