Follow-up video to https://lemmy.world/post/32690521

Spoiler alert: the main reason he says the experience “hasn’t been great” is because shortly before posting the video his Linux install mysteriously broke and he had no idea why. Therefore, he recommended dual-booting Windows just in case.

Cue sea of comments explaining that the reason for the error he was getting was that Windows screwed up his bootloader (i.e. the problem was caused by dual-booting to begin with, LOL).

  • MudMan@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    Going by the Steam survey Linux is like 2-3% of Steam’s userbase. Not even allowing for how many of those people do have a Windows PC on the side, it’s gonna be a while before you convince devs to stop having Anticheat for the sake of that market segment specifically. If they were going to balk at the losses they would have added support in the first place. Being maximalist about it is fine as a principled stance, but you don’t have enough of a wallet to vote with it on this one.

    The comment said “backup OS” because the video ends on a complaint that GRUB got pretty badly broken, presumably by the way they set up their Windows dualboot. I was clarifying for the record that he also suggested dualbooting for other reasons, mainly software compatibility, before things get to that point.

    Again, he’s not wrong on either count.

    • potustheplant@feddit.nlEnglish
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      14 hours ago

      You have to start somewhere my man. Also, not trying to “convince” devs to remove anti-cheat. The point would be to have a linux compatible solution.

      Again, it’s not relevant that relevant how the video ends because the comment did not specifically made a reference to the video and I didn’t either. You’re adding context that you imagine OP was referring to but nothing of the sort was explicitly said.

      • MudMan@fedia.io
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        10 hours ago

        The OP’s comment does specifically make a reference to the video. That’s all he’s talking about:

        It’s not an unreasonable to think that a backup os is a good thing to have, even if in this case it’s the one (most likely) being the reason Bazzite broke.

        Now, I did listen to the video on my way to work, so I might have missed some details, but after checking the comments it seems like Jay’s performance wasn’t really where it should have been.

        I mean, it doesn’t matter, he’s obviously referencing things in it, if you watch the video this is obvious. He’s directly responding to things said in it.

        I have lots of caveats to “you have to start somewhere”. You’re either trying to accomplish something or you aren’t. If you want to fix the compatibility issues you can either do something that works or do something that doesn’t work. Doing many things that don’t work doesn’t necessarily get you any closer to doing a thing that does work. Instead of making an empty gesture I’d rather find an actual solution. It’s not useful to take a principled stance that is not a solution to make myself feel like I’m doing something or to cope with the inconvenience.

        “The best thing you can do about games not working is decide not to play those games” is great for you as a way to feel that you’re not playing the games that don’t work on purpose, but it won’t fix the problem for people who migrate and it will do nothing to get more people to migrate despite the issue. I’m not particularly interested in posturing for the sake of it.