• joelfromaus@aussie.zone
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    10 hours ago

    Unpopular opinion: these memes always have ‘I am very smart’ energy on Lemmy. The issue is that these companies should support Linux not that your personal taste in video games means it’s a good thing that they don’t.

    I don’t play any of these particular games but I have other software that doesn’t run on Linux without considerable effort. So I haven’t switched. My best friend has switched and made the changes necessary and is forever troubleshooting issues.

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      My particular taste in video games is that they are not predating on my kernel bitch whatafuck is wrong with you they should not be allowed to do that

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      No, no, no - this is all wrong. I don’t consider you a person unless you self-flagellate at the terminal daily, compiling from source in dependency hell while being cleansed by the vim fires at the altar of Tux.

      This species of Linux user reminds me quite a lot of Catholics.

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        Lol, is that what you tell yourself every day to justify staying with Windows? Do you convince yourself by imagining Linux users suffering?

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        7 hours ago

        You’re shadowboxing with a nonexistent Linux user. People do that kind of stuff as a hobby, not for status. Most people who are into that sort of thing are too asocial to use any social capital they might have anyway.

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        9 hours ago

        I read that as “self-felate” and was impressed and horrified that people were that flexible while using the terminal.

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      I agree with you that these memes are a little silly, but I also agree with the overall point that it’s actually good that these games don’t run on Linux. It has nothing to do with my personal taste in these games though, and everything to do with privacy violations via kernel-level anticheats, and getting people addicted via dark patterns like microtransactions, gacha, and FOMO-inducing battlepasses.

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        I built a computer for my uncle and his kids and installed Linux on it. My cousin wanted to play Fortnite, and I tried to pitch it to him as a feature instead of a bug. But a couple weekends ago, I caved and installed dang Windows 11 for him.

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          You caved to the megacorps immense pressure on kids to recruit and devulge their friends and peers desires so that the hypercapitalist pedo lords can Harvest them D: with knowledge that this goes on? Based.

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      9 hours ago

      I don’t play any of these particular games but I have other software that doesn’t run on Linux without considerable effort.

      Anything that isn’t a game can typically be run on a virtual machine.

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        9 hours ago

        So, the software that runs the features on my mouse and headset run on a VM. Then I play the games in the base OS with those features like software driven surround sound?

        This is actually similar to the situation I came across with my friend. “Everything works 100% it’s crazy!” Sweet! How’d you get the customisable mouse buttons working? (He has the same mouse as me) “There are extra mouse buttons? Oh, there are! I never noticed. No, they don’t work anymore”. 😑

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          Of course they work just disassemble the Windows exe and find the addresses and break free from bloat

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          So it’s not software that doesn’t work but hardware that’s weird then? Sure, makes sense.

          Next time you buy hardware look it up. Once you’re on stuff that’ll work in Linux you should be able to jump over easily then.