Okay you nerds definitely have a point on this one
Get off that high horse: linux can still run DotA 2.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think you can run LoL on Linux
Im still waiting on them deploying it. I have a windows installation that does not boot using uefi, and therefor can not run vanguard. So when they deploy it its finally bye bye league after 14 years haha
Holly shit, after looking things up it’s even worse than I thought…
Playing Valorant will need to enable TPM 2.0 and secure boot under windows 11 OS, you have to check that your motherboard is support TPM 2.0 system. (NOTE: If your system unable to support TPM2. 0, the only way that you can play Valorant is change your windows to older version as windows 10.)
Damn, Riot effectively turning PC into console…
I will never understand why so many people were just okay accepting all this invasive bullshit like Vanguard. There’s so many games I just can’t even consider because I refuse to implicitly tell game companies their unchecked behavior like this is acceptable.
These are fucking video games; there is no goddamn reason a glorified toy should have root or kernel-level access. It’s wild to me the amount people who will accept anything, no questions asked.
I’m sure Hell Divers is fun, but it ain’t worth it to me to find out.
I accept it if it means removing most cheaters from the game. Most people do.
Yes, there are versions of WINE and Proton that are specific to running LoL, but it’s still somewhat of a headache to get running.
Might be one click to install it, but it doesn’t immediately start working after that, at least according to what I’ve seen. WINE and Proton work well in general, but I’ve seen problems when it comes to LoL specifically.
Supposedly there is a way using a macOS emulator, since Vanguard hasn’t been ported to macOS yet
Crap games apart (LOL is a good name for it), the only reason because Windows is better for games is that most games in the market are Windows only, no other reasons. But this is currently changing with more and more games also for Linux. Worst gaming platform is still Apple.
Anyway, at least
And the reason a lot of games are made for windows: nvidia helps companies with testing and development support, but funnily enough they help with testing nvidia hardware, and only on Windows.
I guess they only do Windows to try to keeo development costs of the drivers down? But I’m not sure.
Not entirely correct, the simple reason is called “money”. Windows is by far the most used platform in the world, because of this also the most potential users of the gaming industry. Linux has almost 100 different distros and much of these don’t accept other than opensource apps in its repository and only very few modern games are (2?..3?), there isn’t much more than FPS and arena shooters with graphics of 20 years ago, side scrollers and other with pixelgraphics, crappy RPG 2 D or with isometric view, few exceptions apart, like the above mencioned The Dark Mod, despite that it isn’t full OpenSource because of some non-free art assets which included and for this is tecnically only freeware and for sure for this, not in most of the repositories. Making games is a lot of work and there are not much idealistic game devs out there which will make a modern game for buy me a coffee. That is the main problem because Windows is still the best platform for games and not for tecnical reasons.
There’s FOSS* client for Oldschool Runescape, called Runelite ;)
*some proprietary blobs because Jamflex didn’t like that RL devs were providing source code for the reverse engineered bits from the official java client
They’ll help you develop and test your AI stuff on Linux but not Windows (I don’t think… Completely different team of engineers).
I’m wondering what will happen when loads of games have built-in generative AI… Will these two paths cross and finally give us Linux folks Nvidia (graphics) drivers that are actually good? 🤔
Oh they already activated Vanguard for League of Legends? Because before that it could run under linux.
They announced it like a month ago, they could have flipped the switch by now. LoL was always a pain to get working anyway
ah yeah, they flipped the switch: https://areweanticheatyet.com/?search=league&sortOrder=&sortBy=
