No more Total War games, please.

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Lutris seems to work pretty well. I installed my old copy of Guild Wars 2 over the weekend and am getting great performance. Diablo 3 works OK, but there's a bug somewhere that's preventing me from running it with DXVK (the Battle.net launcher gives me an error, and I can't proceed), so the performance is a bit janky, but it's otherwise playable. I haven't installed a whole lot else, but so far, I prefer it to Play on Linux because it's more configurable, and the install scripts are more up to date.

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Now, someone might argue why support Linux? Here's a reason you can share: You really can't port your engine to consoles without going to Linux first. It's really that simple. No Linux port, no console versions because you need a "clean slate" version of it.

Which begs the question, Why not just start with a "clean slate" instead of making a Windows version and then having to "clean it up" before you can port to other systems?

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Quoting: Rooster

Quoting: KrumpetPirate

Quoting: Mountain ManDo the Batman Arkham games work yet? Those are the only ones I really care about.

Arkham Origins runs at least, but very poorly. I think it crashed out or I got so annoyed with the terrible graphical glitches that I quit the game and moved on to the next test.

According to the reports, it should run pretty well:

https://spcr.netlify.com/app/209000 [External Link]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wI-58WDpa4 [External Link]

Arkham City should run as well, after some changes:
https://spcr.netlify.com/app/200260 [External Link]

Looks like you have to jump through some hoops to get .NET installed, but it's promising.

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Do the Batman Arkham games work yet? Those are the only ones I really care about.

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147,000 Euros, huh? Gabe can pay that from the change he digs out of his sofa on a weekly basis.

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That's great! Total Warhammer runs pretty good all things considered, although it can chug on complex maps. It'd be great if Vulkan could get us over such hurdles.

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Quoting: HamishI have been seeing people get blown away by Linux package management for as long as I have been using it.

There is no doubt that Linux has come a long way in the last ten years, and I am glad to see that people like Jason are recognizing this and enjoying it, but I can't help but feel that it often does not get enough credit for what is has been doing well for decades.

Linux software has never been that hard to install. I mean:

./configure
make
make install

This isn't rocket science. The problem is that people seem to have an irrational fear of the command line.

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Quoting: Mountain ManMy wife recently bought a new laptop with Windows preinstalled. I spent a couple of hours uninstalling all the junk software that it came with and configuring the OS so that she could use it.

I had another older computer that needed a fresh OS install, so I put KDE Neon on it. The whole process from start to finish took about 30-minutes, and it "just worked".

I hate Windows.

Couldn't you have just wiped the computer and installed Windows from scratch? The fresh installs don't have any of the manufacturers bloatware. I personally dislike the invasive data collection, having antivirus software, and miss the linux command line when I use Windows but it's stuff all non-linux users are completely accustomed with.

Anyway, the stuff Windows has historically beaten linux hands down on are actively being worked on so hopefully the linux desktop will eventually catch on. Honestly, the last things linux needs to really take off are more OEM's willing to preload it, support for apps that keep people constrained to windows like Office and the adobe suite, and maybe its own exclusive killer apps.

Systems that come with Windows preinstalled are usually loaded up with junk, plus the usual Windows nonsense of endless updates and multiple reboots as soon as you turn the damn thing on and the constant annoyance of "Hey, I see you changed a default application. Are you sure you don't want to use the Microsoft version instead?" At one point I even asked my wife if she would just let me wipe the hard drive and install Linux instead, but she wouldn't let me because there are one or programs that she uses that are Windows only, and she really doesn't like the idea of learning how to use the Linux alternatives.

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My wife recently bought a new laptop with Windows preinstalled. I spent a couple of hours uninstalling all the junk software that it came with and configuring the OS so that she could use it.

I had another older computer that needed a fresh OS install, so I put KDE Neon on it. The whole process from start to finish took about 30-minutes, and it "just worked".

I hate Windows.

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