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1173 points davikr | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 17:59 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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thadt ◴[12 Nov 25 18:29 UTC] No.45903896[source]▶
Pretty much the only reason I boot to Windows anymore is to play games with my kids and family. The direction of this thing is dangerously close to being all I'd care about from a desktop computer.

If Valve pivoted into making a well-supported laptop with good hardware that ran Linux and played games...

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quasigod ◴[12 Nov 25 18:46 UTC] No.45904148[source]▶
Just wondering, what games are you playing that dont run on Linux yet? I can't think of games I'd play much with family that dont work well
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neura ◴[12 Nov 25 18:57 UTC] No.45904370[source]▶
I do not believe that _you_ are trolling with this question, but answering this is just asking to be trolled.

That said. Fortnite. Yes, I still play it with friends and cannot play it on Mac or Linux. :(

I'm sure others have similar examples. Also there are just simple things like playing with friends and streaming on Discord. Anybody streaming from Windows always comes across smooth and HD to the other participants while anybody on Linux seems to consistently be received (I don't know where exactly in the chain the problem exists, so just "received", as it may not be a broadcasting or encoding problem, I'm not an expert in this) with a lot of artifacts and lower framerates.

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andai ◴[12 Nov 25 19:02 UTC] No.45904504[source]▶
A friend of mine, a Linux user, says he installed Windows for gaming. Apparently the main issue isn't actual compatibility for games, but that a lot of games require some kind of kernel level anticheat (rootkit?).
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inexcf ◴[12 Nov 25 19:16 UTC] No.45904771[source]▶
Yes and they could just make it(the rootkits) work on linux. It's more about the publishers/devs actively opposing linux.
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1. rtkwe ◴[12 Nov 25 19:22 UTC] No.45904884[source]▶
Alternatively it's still a pretty small slice of the market that's not willing to dual boot for the major games that do require windows only anticheats so it's just not worth their dev and support time to try to serve that small slice. Valve's work on Steam Machines/Decks is the thing needed to actually push developers to supporting it by providing a relatively consistent target OS and a large enough install base to justify spending the money to support.