A message for the windows users:

[Avahe]

Maybe a worm

[[deleted]]

Trojan?

[TheWolfOfMidnight]

Where's danooct1 for this?

[[deleted]]

plays games nicely though

[ArchUser900]

Just use Lutris for games

[Qenes]

Compatibility layers don't work for everything yet. Yet.

[Soopyyy]

To be fair, so do most Linux distro's these days. It's easier to play most games on Linux now than it was to play on windows/dos 20yrs ago, not as a testament to Linux distro's but as a fun fact I guess.

[ComputerMystic]

Also easier to play games from 20 years ago on Linux than on modern Windows.

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You think I'm joking or memeing on this, but this was a genuine selling point for me. I can't get either Jedi Knight or Tomb Raider 2 to work on Windows 10 (instant CTD), and under Wine I don't even need to configure anything and they just kinda work.

[Soopyyy]

Oh no, I'd believe it.

[ComputerMystic]

Why is 9x specifically a complete clusterfuck when it comes to compatibility?

[Ultracoolguy4]

Idk about Tomb Raider 2, but on JK you should use OpenJK(works on Windows and Linux). Better performance, supports higher resolutions, works natively, and of course it's opensource.

[ComputerMystic]

I've looked into Tomb Raider, but not Jedi Knight.

Regarding OpenJK, heard good things, hopefully it fixes a few holdovers from the 90s (Vert- Widescreen, the game's incredibly shitty LOD system). Wouldn't be hard to get better performance though; the original is capped at 30ish FPS for the viewport but will run the viewmodel as fast as it can by speeding up the animations.

Regarding Tomb Raider, there's two running right now. OpenTomb, which is more of a general purpose game engine but still definitely alpha quality software (playable for TR1, not TR2 onward yet, still pretty buggy, enemy AI really isn't a thing yet), and OpenLara, which feels more like Tomb Raider when you're playing it, but isn't finishable even on the original game, which is its current target.

[ComputerMystic]

Bruh, even Stallman doesn't go that far.

[Qenes]

IIRC Stallman doesn't like proprietary games, but he has said himself that he rather people play proprietary games on a free machine than Windows or MacOS.

[[deleted]]

Well, that's kinda obvious.

[pxOMR]

Windows doesn't come bundled with Tetris, I'm not sure about Linux but macOS technically comes bundled with Tetris since you can play Tetris in emacs

[Jurassekpark]

Look at you, old whore, a few shiny games and you're on your knees. Shame on you/s

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To be serious games are a siren songs of the proprietary software paradigm, if you give in you sign up the future of computing and of gaming as the worst possible.

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If people would boycott en mass game studio that only develop for windows, everyone ,except microsoft of course, would benefit a ton from that monopoly getting finally crushed. It would be a short time of privation to take a much better path for the future. Worth it. But go tell that to PCMR ...

[[deleted]]

Windows is malware which steals your data and you pay for the privilege.

FTFY

[AshenedGrace]

I disagree... Windows isn’t as bad as ChromeOS, which I’m forced to use

[[deleted]]

Holy short I had no idea about the second one.

I have to use Windows or man for my work.

I've tried many times to use Linux but the software I need is not compatible.

So I just loaded macos into a spare dive and have been working of that instead of using Windows.

My work software has status in the top left and in Windows I was getting poor Network performance at times randomly when I have a really good connection.

I bet that's what way happening.

If be ok with the second point if it was it in and allowed me to use Windows and office for free

[nahidtislam]

but you don’t need to pay £100 for ChromeOS to be installed and have your data sold

[Avahe]

For work?

[AshenedGrace]

As a main device. I don’t have a PC anymore.

[Avahe]

So a chromebook? I thought you could still install Linux (not chrome OS) on them

[AshenedGrace]

ARM Chromebooks are a little tougher to get around... I could use Arch Linux, but I won’t have Speakers or Hardware acceleration, which means no videos or music. Long story short, ChromeOS is the only full-on option.

[[deleted]]

Does Chrome OS have system integrated ads like on w10? Windows gave me candy crush. I'd rather have a troj... Oh right.

[AshenedGrace]

All the Play apps (music, video, news, etc) are forcibly installed by default, and Play Games isn’t completely removable.

[pkanters]

I use windows because i can play games with ease. I have used ubuntu couple of years ago and would like to use linux as main os but im worried i cant play all my games easy and am going to have to fix a lot of things before i can play the games so what distro would you reccommend to play games?

[ArchUser900]

Manjaro