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  • Crozekiel@lemmy.ziptoLinux@lemmy.mlSorry to leave Zorin
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    2 days ago

    Even that quote is contradictory in one sentence. Bold added to clarify what I mean…

    but thats also because I don’t play a game that hard requires windows to function, so my usage of the OS is strictly hardware/firmware updates and the once or twice a year that I do have a game that straight doesn’t work on linux at all.

    Basically “I won’t play a game that ‘hard requires windows’ unless I decide to play a game that ‘straight doesn’t work on linux’, which happens regularly enough that it is half the reason I keep a windows partition around”. Like, honestly, It’s okay. I am not trying to shame you for having a windows partition. I just find it hypocritical to say it doesn’t work and then explain how you make it work, lol.



  • Crozekiel@lemmy.ziptoLinux@lemmy.mlSorry to leave Zorin
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    5 days ago

    You can get really good performance in a VM if you can pass-through a GPU, which is a lot of tom-foolery or a second dedicated GPU since you can’t have it passed through and working for your host OS at the same time. BUT, most anti-cheat is going to either block the game from running in a VM or just ban you outright for trying to “bypass” the anti-cheat.

    All of this is even dumber when you realize EAC (which Epic makes) has Linux compatibility that other games use, but Epic specifically chooses to not allow in their games. I really think it is because they know it would only help the Steam Deck and Tim Sweeney really hates Valve.


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    Doubt the graphics is going to keep up in WinBoat enough to be playable, but even if it has improved that much in 3 months, it still isn’t going to make the anti-cheat work in a VM.

    Unfortunately, the best experience I’ve found (without installing windows on bare metal) for something like this is one of those game streaming services like geforce now or xbox game pass. You point your browser somewhere and play it with a bit of input lag. But both of those companies suck a whole lot, so I stopped using them (and I heard game pass is going to limit you to some absurd low number of hours per month, even on the top tier of game pass).



  • Since it is not clear in the post, I wanted to point out that it is a third party “curator event” using steam.

    Its sort of akin to there being an AI slop festival at your local community event center; that doesn’t mean the city is promoting it, someone has just signed up (maybe paying?) to use that space.

    The “curator” in question has a meager 22 followers. This post has likely driven more traffic to their “sale” than Valve has.










  • I love LibreOffice.

    My only complaint using it every day at work is [a complaint against microsoft] how much my company uses microsoft products (but won’t shell out for office licenses for 90% of staff) and microsoft purposefully makes their shit not display or read Libre files correctly to try to keep their grubby monopoly claws dug into everyone.

    My IT staff is too stupid to send announcements out to a BCC list and causes reply-all waves about once a month so I am not holding out hope that we make any progress as a company towards smart computing.