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Warframe - Linux: ✅️
Conclusion, Linux wins.
Linux runs Resident Evil 9. It just doesn’t run these because they aren’t real games.
Runs BF6: ❌
That trash even requires you to enable secure boot. Get the fuck outta here with those ridonkulous requirements 😂
Um, acktchuailley Linux can run Genshin through An Anime Launcher.
I imagine Linux can run most of those. Odds are the OP just didn’t try hard enough.
What is completely understandable.
No, it can’t.
The virgin BF6 ❌
The chad Insurgency Sandstorm ✅
No, all of them have Anticheat. Some may work up to and including the main screen or a few seconds of gameplay, but not further.
I’ve played Genshin Impact just fine on my Steam Deck using An Anime Launcher.
Anti cheat doesn’t mean something doesn’t work with Linux.
Some anti cheat either didn’t work well with Linux or is specifically intended to be incompatible with Linux.
Kernel Level Anticheat does. Which is obviously what I am talking about, in the context of AAA shooters.
I’ve experienced myself that GTA:O, Fortnite and Apex don’t work. LoL is famous for not working, same with R6. They’re all shooter games after all.
Now:
Fortnite works - with a custom server. The point of even playing something like Fortnite is the large playerbase to fill games with dozens of players, and using custom servers basically nulls that, but it’s technically an option…
Genshin works (although you might just get banned)
R6 just doesn’t work.
Destiny 2 neither.
Same with Apex.
GTA:O doesn’t work with public sessions since Enhanced. It does work with workarounds for all players and therefore an invite-only session. So it’s not really the original GTA Online anymore, but tbh nobody cares abt that, everyone just chills in private lobbies and/or plays RP.
LOL also just doesn’t work.Rocket League works perfectly fine with BattlEye and is expected to work perfectly fine when it switches to Easy Anti-Cheat on Linux. The issue isn’t the anti-cheat. Its the developers’ implementations.
Everything I can find tells me Genshin has been running on Linux for three years. Haven’t tried it though
and it runs mafia the old country, which doesn’t have multi player crap or microtransactions, so yeah, absolute win
This is how i find out that they broke Apex on linux. Used to run just fine.
Anti-Cheat topic I believe
Yea they removed Linux support in 2022 or 2023 I think? I used to play a lot with my friends but I’m not installing windows just for that game so they lost me
I stopped playing completely when they broke anti-cheat on Linux. I was already waning on the game and that sealed the deal for me.
GTAO is pretty fun if you carefully dupe money all the time. I come back to it occasionally.
GTAOs anti cheat engine has a Linux option… Rockstar just hasn’t turned it on.
I play that on W10 LTSC.
You can run Genshin Impact on Linux
speak for yourself
You can, but you shouldn’t
Not under my roof
Genshin and ZZZ have been running fine from the official installer in a Proton Prefix for years now. They use a different anticheat from the two Honkai games for some reason.
Does that mean that Honkai games still can’t be played on Linux? There goes my idea of giving Star Rail a try.
Idc for any of these games. So yeah, Linux wins.
Runs Genshin impact: ✅
Runs the launcher: ❌
It works pretty well on proton. It’s just the launcher that doesn’t. So you need to update using a VM or windows, then run the exe instead.
It’s been a while though, and I haven’t tried playing it since before the volcano update. I think star rail is the same, but Honkai Impact 3rd doesn’t work, even in VMs
Uh almost all of these run great on Linux proton, the one exception being GTA online because of the anti cheat.
No even then GTAO can run… If rockstar just enables the Linux anticheat on the engine they are using…
Is this the kernel-level spyware list?
Primarily, there are a few EAC games that haven’t checked the ‘Linux allowed’ box yet.
I know a lot of you don’t care if these games run or not, but really does suck they don’t. I’ve talked to quite a few people that wouldn’t switch to Linux because X game doesn’t run on it.
Mechwarrior 2 Titanium trilogy, arguably the best games EVER MADE (fight me, wetnose) doesn’t really run on anything beyond Windows 2000. I simply refuse to update to any OS that doesn’t retain the functionality of my games.
Why not run linux on your main and have a Windows 2000 Virtual Machine?
Because I don’t really run Windows 2000 on my main machine. It was sarcasm.
Plus… Running mint on my main, and I’ve tried a couple of emulators and VMs to try to run MW2 and none of them do a good job of it, especially if you want to use a controller or joystick. Frankly, If I had a real heavy hankering for my vintage games, I’d just build an airgapped legacy system specifically for running that game.
Agreed, I switched my gaming rig to Linux for 6 months and was so excited to get things working. Went back to windows on it because I kept going to play with friends, and would often have to mess with Proton versions (again) to get the game working.
I really enjoy the Grounded games, so when Grounded 2’s early access was about to release I switched back to avoid dealing with those issues.
Still rocking Linux on my non-gaming devices though, aside from SteamDeck.
Went back to windows on it because I kept going to play with friends,
Shame.
I really enjoy the Grounded games, so when Grounded 2’s early access was about to release I switched back to avoid dealing with those issues.
Shame, shame, shame.
What would you recommend I do so that I wouldn’t have ran into those issues? Suck it up and keep dealing with the headaches?
I’m no fan of Windows either, but it lets me play games when I want to play them.
Both Grounded games are listed as Gold on ProtonDB, just FYI
Edit: Oh, I see. No crossplay. Well that sucks.
People will always come up with a reason to stay with what they have.
And other people will always come up with a reason you need to leave what you have even if it satisfies your need.
Your personal needs are not the concern. Free the software free the society.
Your personal opinions are not my concern.
Your personal needs are not the concern
And with that attitude you’ve already lost.
They are addicted and hooked to a scam that Harvest their resources
Yeah this is only a win if you don’t play those games. Unfortunately these games are intensely popular and the lack of compatibility stunts the popularity of Linux. I expect there is a similar anti-meme of this list titled “why I’ll never install Linux”
the only times i’ve had trouble playing a game on linux are when the developer specifically fucks with it so it won’t run on linux. the main reason for that is kernel-level anticheat software, which, from what i’ve heard, doesn’t really help with cheating much anyways. my computer is my computer, i don’t need microsoft or some game company going into my kernel. can’t wait for some drm company to get hacked and have windows gamers up in arms because they got ransomewared.
I think one of the games got hacked via their anticheat and we’re able to mess around with other players. I don’t remember which one it was though. I don’t play any of these games so they all blend together for me
