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"I would like to switch to Linux, but it's just not good for gaming" (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Sonotsugipaa to c/[email protected]

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(The "Windows" slices of the pies are entirely made up by Baldur's Gate 3, which also runs well over Linux)

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[–] [email protected] 265 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (50 children)

The issue has never been that games can't run on Linux. It has always been a simple question of "will the games I want to play run?" More than ever, that answer is yes, but if your favorite game doesn't, or if you never want to worry about "will this upcoming (online) game let me play on Linux?" then you use Windows by default.

Like, I love y'all, but the Linux gaming community on Lemmy is kinda insufferable with the straw-man "people think games can't run on Linux" argument. That's just not the issue

[+] Sonotsugipaa -29 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Mine is not an argument asserting that people think games can't run on Linux, mine is a mockery of the people who do so (I know several).

I find you insufferable too, don't worry

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

You are mocking a straw-man. These people you refer to number in the dozens

[+] Sonotsugipaa -6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I must've gotten lucky with my quarter of a dozen friends who do that...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Or they were making excuses

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh, it's the Linux-preaching guy again. He always tries to get us to switch to Linux. We just say "sorry mate, we can't game on Linux" when we see him, he usually leaves us alone after that.

OP's friends until now

look dude, you were friends with Steve and he died in 91, and he taught us to be more patient with you than you deserve. We don't care that you're on the spectrum, this is not okay. Every single time we go out you're on that Linux shit. Every. Single. Fucking. Time. We're tired of your shit, we don't want to hear from you again, you can keep your Linux and shove it up your ass. Just stop bothering us about it.

OP's friends after OP's newly found pie charts

[–] Sonotsugipaa 1 points 2 years ago

It's more like friendly banter, than me trying to compel anyone to make any "switch" - something everyone in this comment thread keeps assuming, for some reason;
I posted this ON A LINUX COMMUNITY;
If you look at the chart instead of dumping gasoline on the admittedly inflammatory title, you may notice that I occasionally boot up Windows, and consequently admit that sometimes you don't have a choice or simply want to avoid the headache;
I reiterate, I find volatile croissand-bread people like you and neatchee unsufferable.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

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