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My friend didn't have a great experience with Linux (feddit.nl)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have been daily driving Linux for over two years now and I have switched distros many times. So, when my friend bought a new laptop, I convinced him to install Linux Mint on it. I asked him if he wanted to dual boot, he said no because it would fill up all his storage. We installed Linux Mint. The other day, he wanted to play FIFA 17 on his computer. After 5 whole hours of troubleshooting we were able to get FIFA running smoothly with some issues. Next, he wanted to play Roblox. I guided him through the process of installing Waydroid and libhoudini, only to discover that Roblox would run at 10 FPS. With Minecraft, it wasn't any better. It took us 1 hour to get it working (not skill issue, he wanted to play cracked through Prism Launcher). Now, he wants to go back to Windows 10. I have already told him about dual boot, but he has only 256GB of storage and he wants to play a lot of games. What should I do? Install Windows to his laptop, install some other Linux distro, or try to convince him more about dual boot? Thanks in advance and sorry for the essay.

UPDATE: Of course I will help him install Windows on his computer if he wants so, I don't want to force him to use Linux after all. I just wanted him to give it a try, and maybe daily drive it, if he can.

EDIT: Because for some reason it was misunderstood, let me clarify it here. Roblox ran with poor performance on Waydroid, not Minecraft. I just said that the installation of Prism Launcher cracked was difficult. After that, Minecraft ran smoothly without any problems.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The problem is not that games don't run smoothly. The problem is that games don't run at all or require major effort to run without issues. Will installing that distro fix the complicated installation of Prism Launcher cracked? I don't think so. But I agree with you for the fact that I chose the wrong distro. I wanted something easy for beginners.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The problem is that games don't run at all or require major effort to run without issues.

A major cause for that is the distro - when it comes to gaming, the distro makes a huge difference as I outlined previously. The second major cause is the flavor of Wine you chose (Proton-GE is the best, not sure what you used). The third major cause is checking whether or not the games are even compatible in the first place (via ProtonDB, Reddit etc) - you should do this BEFORE you recommend Linux to a gamer.

In saying all that, I've no idea about pirated stuff though, you're on your own on that one - Valve and the Wine developers obviously don't test against pirated copies, and you won't get much support from the community either.

[–] Ziglin -3 points 6 months ago

Seriously you're recommending Reddit to a Lemmy user?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Bazzite also solves this, sometimes.

But you cant change if Roblox etc actively block Linux compatibility

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Why did they even do that?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

"SeCuRiTy"

[+] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] Ziglin 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There's no way to completely avoid cheaters and I really don't get why there's so many windows games that want Kernelmode access. You could still read the memory and emulate inputs based on that or draw something on the screen. It's probably just causing the cheaters who want to download something and win to get more viruses (which most probably deserve assuming the viruses aren't too bad), while the game company gets closer to being indistinguishable from a virus itself.