Quoting: Cyril

Quoting: areamanplaysgameDon't.

Crowdfund.

Games.

If you support a game on Kickstarter and it ends up like 99% of everything else on Kickstarter, you can't really be surprised.

Stop.

Telling.

Lies.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/crowdfunders/

Good point. Enjoy funding the next 10 "failed" or "in development" until it is no longer "in development" Linux games on Kickstarter. I'll stick to paying money for things that someone is actually obligated to deliver.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: areamanplaysgame

Quoting: GuestNot linux user will
1. switch to windows

This might be true for a PC gamer who builds PCs, etc. The average console gamer, and even a less experienced PC gamer, is unlikely to install a new OS. The overwhelming majority of PC users never do.

Many don't know what an OS is.

Yes.

I think most PC gamers aren't quite that bad off, but this is a crucial bit of perspective that a lot of people hoping for widespread Linux adoption are missing. My dad, a person with an advanced degree and a professional license, uses Windows and frequently asks me how to "get into Microsoft." The average computer user doesn't have a clue what is going on and doesn't care until it stops working. There is literally zero chance of them installing a non-mainstream OS.

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Quoting: GuestNot linux user will
1. switch to windows

This might be true for a PC gamer who builds PCs, etc. The average console gamer, and even a less experienced PC gamer, is unlikely to install a new OS. The overwhelming majority of PC users never do.

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Quoting: no_information_here

Quoting: areamanplaysgameI keep giving KDE another chance every few months, but it's just never been a good experience for me. I love a lot of the KDE ecosystem, but for some reason basic stuff that just works in GNOME, like pairing a Bluetooth gamepad or, like, playing audio in Firefox, does not work in KDE on the same machine for no reason I can easily discern. And then, when I go back to GNOME, I have to spend extra time fixing the stuff KDE broke that it shouldn't have been able to break.

As mentioned above, you cannot judge KDE if you installed it over top of a default Gnome setup. This is true the other way around, too.

If it can't perform in that kind of setup, then why is installing more than one DE an option? I have literally never once anywhere seen anyone discourage doing this before.

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Quoting: GuestI'm not entirely sure they were referring to a GNU/Linux setup for that, but rather a software development process and allocation of "resources" (i.e the time/cost of actually assigning someone to it).

That's how I read it too. Unfortunately then it turns into, "I know I took your money for this thing, but I can't get it to you because now I'm too busy taking someone else's money for something else."

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Don't.

Crowdfund.

Games.

If you support a game on Kickstarter and it ends up like 99% of everything else on Kickstarter, you can't really be surprised.

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Quoting: fearnflavioThere is one solution: ship a cloud version of fortnite. Not the best solution but depending on how it is implemented could work.
Several games on the Nintendo switch are cloud based like Control and Kingdom Hearts. There are companies that port your game to the cloud.
Not the best solution, still a solution.

Cloud gaming requires a pretty robust internet connection, though (significantly more internets than you need to simply connect a locally installed game to a server). But given that Fortnite already is (was?) available on mobile platforms, I guess Epic is not particularly worried about delivering a suboptimal experience for their very popular digital clothing store for ten year olds.

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I thought this was laughable when the devs of that Halo fangame said they couldn't support Linux because Kernel hackers would cheat. This is a slightly larger possibility with Fortnite because the game is *huge*, but there are most likely far more cheaters already cheating on Windows than the number of people who 1. are interested in Fortnite and 2. would "[crack] open the Linux source code and making some tactical changes to how the kernel behaves, building the kernel and then making the EAC kernel module blind." It just seems like an utterly ridiculous thing to worry about.

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Quoting: amataiYeah, Plasma keep breaking thing on my computer so that I don't have to break them I suppose.

I keep giving KDE another chance every few months, but it's just never been a good experience for me. I love a lot of the KDE ecosystem, but for some reason basic stuff that just works in GNOME, like pairing a Bluetooth gamepad or, like, playing audio in Firefox, does not work in KDE on the same machine for no reason I can easily discern. And then, when I go back to GNOME, I have to spend extra time fixing the stuff KDE broke that it shouldn't have been able to break.

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Not Deck Verified, but I noticed The Elder Scrolls Online is deeply discounted right now and I grabbed it. I had to run the installer twice and set some launch options, but after that the game is performing almost shockingly well on my 6 year old system running Ubuntu 20.04.

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