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
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
It’s actually pretty hard to fuck up your game that much that it doesn’t work on Linux.
Many anti cheat even work under proton.
So yeah, just don’t fucking buy shit games.
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
LinuxPlaystation fan attacking someone for playing anWindowsXbox 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
I refuse to buy a game that has DRM or anti cheat.
I would too, but it play it with firends and they couldn’t care less about free software and linux. They just want to play no questions asked
Get better friends.
Here’s a good place to get better friends: https://friendlylinuxplayers.org/
Which is fine, but it isn’t a perfect strategy, because developers and publishers have complete control to replace the client at any time to add features you decline to use, and you are not automatically entitled to a refund if that happens.
Sometimes you have to choose between what is convenient and what is right, and sometimes that means giving things up. But not everyone is willing or able to do that. It’s fine, do what you feel you need to.
Same here. I’ve only a Linux machine for over a decade but I had to go out and buy Windows just so I could play on FaceIT. I’m praying that cs2 supports Linux and the MM experience is good enough to make FaceIT obsolete.
Cs2 is 100% getting Linux support. Wouldnt make sense for a company that heavily invested in Linux to not support it
Buy windows? 🤯🤯🤯
I hope they didn’t actually buy it from M$ at least, but a third party reseller for five bucks
Personally never bought it. (Windows activation script ftw)
I did, it was £79 or £89 if I recall. Windows 10 home edition. Also I don’t get Windows 11 because my mobo/cpu don’t support it.
In Germany we would say “Windows 11 ist Quatsch”
Why should he?
NVMe drives have become to inexpensive recently I just bit the bullet and dual-boot windows from it’s own drive. Takes less than ten seconds to switch.
Just make sure you physically disconnect all other storage devices while installing windows. The windows boot loader seems to make itself comfy on any drive it can find.
Out of curiosity, which games are those?
Fall guys fortnite and apex (judge me if you want but my broke firend don’t wanna try anything else)
I can confirm that both apex and fallguys are working just fine on Linux. Fortnite on the other hand does not.
I’m not judging, as I said I was curious. I get it though, Apex just had a Linux ban wave, Fortnite well, it’s owned by Epic and Fall Guys to my knowledge requires editing AC files so Windows in your case is more convenient
Sorry if i sounded a little rude. It’s just that most of the time people think i’m 6y/o just because i play fortnite and it got quite annoying
I just refuse to buy any games with client side anti cheat. It’s just too much of a security and privacy risk to have those rootkits on my computers.