The Duff CEO with a Windows-Logo on his forehead: “Gamers use Windows because of its’ user experience not our de facto monopoly.”

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Edit: Yo, I’m not saying this is gonna happen. I just want to say that Windew’s UX sucks ass.

  • stevedice@sh.itjust.works
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    22 hours ago

    It could be 99% of games and it wouldn’t matter if the remaining 1% are what people actually wanna play. Support for games outside of Steam is beyond the capabilities of most PC users. Most people don’t actually enjoy playing Troubleshooting Simulator.

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      15 hours ago

      I play games outside of Steam as well?

      Wtf, those launchers play games without issues outside the Steam? What are you talking about?

      And if that last 1% of games does crazy shit, it can stay on Windows. There is no need to fully support everything from Windows (down to exploits) on Linux.

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        6 hours ago

        Can I just go to gog.com, download The Witcher 3, click on the installer and have it install? Or do I have to configure some bullshit that’s beyond the capabilities of the regular user before I can do that? You seem to be completely disconnected from real people. Real people also don’t care about what kernel anticheat does and just want it to work.

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          5 hours ago

          I have played a game from GOG on Linux (Icewind Dale), it had Linux download, I opened it and the game played 100%, even multiplayer with non-Linux users.

          Dunno about Witcher 3 specifically.

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            3 hours ago

            It doesn’t. But congratulations on showing that Linux gaming outside of Steam is at exactly the same stage as it was years ago: Most titles don’t work.

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              2 hours ago

              You are just trolling, or being in bad faith.

              I don’t know about Witcher 3, because I didn’t buy it on GOG. I bought it on Steam, works out of the box, no issues.

              So either tell me your experience, or stay on Windows.

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                1 hour ago

                You download it, you click it, and nothing happens because Linux doesn’t run exes, like it was in the 2000s. What did you expect would happen?

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                  29 minutes ago

                  “It doesn’t work when I make no effort to look up the simple solution that would make it work.”