“Son, I FORBID you to use Linux!”
“YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!”
Bam, big uptick in Linux adoption, easy.
“Libs hate Linux Mint”
“Nazis hate Fedora”
Now all your bases are covered. Now we can put aside political ideology and fight about the real issues… the distro wars.
Really, though - it would be amazing if someone made a MAGA-themed distro just to tell people it’s the “Trump47Freedom Linux, free from liberal wokeness!” and then just collected massive telemetry and had a bunch of backdoors so you can just scam them all for…
Uh…quick, tell me how does one make a Linux distro?
“Libs hate Linux Mint”
“Nazis hate Fedora”
“I use arch btw” says the anarchist
This is the way.
I delayed switching my Win10 desktop to Proton because League brought Doombots back this week.
God, I am never escaping this game, am I…
I don’t know what that means and frankly I think that’s a blessing.
Count yourself lucky.
But frankly, imo League is overhated. I’ve been playing that game since I was 12 and no one has attempted to groom me on it. Meanwhile my time on Roblox and public Minecraft servers was…something…
Fair, I can see that. Whenever I hear a LoL player describe playing it it sounds like the time when I played WoT religiously and I don’t have partially fond memories of WoT.
No, yeah, I won’t say there isn’t a segment of the playerbase that’s addicted, but I do think it’s a bit overplayed for humour. Same with the toxicity, I’ve personally heard worse in FPS lobbies with forced voice chats.
Also our GOAT is Faker, one of the most wholesome players across all of esports. A lot of players hang around the ecosystem for him specifically.
Its time to move on. Come on we will get you into rehab, install a nice linux desktop for you and ease you back into playing some good healthy games… like dota :p
The Toxic MOBA to Toxic MOBA sidegrade is crazy, bro
I’m kidding I’ve never played dota. i replaced my league addiction with factorio
Hello, my name is AnAbsurdlyAgitatedAnaconda and I am an addict. I started with LOL and later reached the highs in DoTA2. Now I am free from any kind of MOBA in straight 1907 days! Thanks for having me.
You do have options. You could run Windows 11 Enterprise IoT edition, which is Windows 11 with lower hardware requirements and significantly less bloat. Or, you could switch to Linux and run Windows in a virtual machine for those edge cases where only Windows will do.
Listen…I’m trying to escape both Windows and League of Legends. Don’t give me an out here, I beg.
In all seriousness, thanks for the helpful suggestion though! I was looking at the LTSC version of Win11 before I decided to at least give some version of Linux a go as a daily driver for a bit. I can always switch back if I really hate it, you know?
Yes, you absolutely can! It’s not a forever decision. You always have the option to switch OS. :)
nope. it’s a forever decision. Once you go linux, you’ll never WANT to go back to windows.
I seem to be the only guy on lemmy who doesn’t know computer shit T-T
What does this mean
League of Legends is a popular game that has a reputation for having toxic players, as well as requiring kernel-level anti-cheat, which is intrusive and so disliked here, and also does not work on Linux.
Thus, by switching to Linux, you can avoid the unwanted chance of playing League of Legends.
I don’t understand. Isn’t that show Arcane insanely popular, and a LoL show? How can the game be so disliked, then?
The gameplay and toxic playerbase are disliked. The lore and characters, which is the only thing the show shares with the game, are liked.
It’s more abusive relationship lol. You remember it was good, get in, get slapped by community, go away. Repeat later. Or install linux to break the cycle. xD
You remember it was good
That’s nostalgia lying to you.
You remember it was good
That’s nostalgia lying to you.
Thought I was in a Halo thread for a second. Feels the exact same. Now if you’ll excuse me I’m gonna go snort Dorito dust and install Halo again
it means league of legends blocks itself from being installed on linux
Interesting choice of instance in that case.
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It means League of Legends is bad, but Doom is not.
I really should be switching to linux, but I only turn my laptop on like once a month and I’m sure I’d forget all the Linux things in-between those occasions…
Also, does anyone know whether linux can run PHPStorm? That’s like the only program I need on thereMany developers use Linux, so Jetbrains makes sure all their IDEs work on it.
I’m pretty sure in general there are more development tools that don’t work on windows (or only work through WSL, which is Linux), than development tools that don’t work on Linux.
I agree, even MacOS is a more capable software development platform than Windows these days.
I have used JetBrains software for years on Linux with no issues.
Mostly used IntelliJ, but they all seem to be built on a common base so I think it should be no problems.
Try in a VM!
I’ve always had a better time running jetbrains ides on linux than I’ve had on windows so yeah, there won’t be any issue with that at all.
Ok but now I can’t put my laptop to sleep without it breaking my wifi and needing a full restart. None of the solutions I found worked. What then? More hours of fruitless troubleshooting?
Have you tried posting in the Linux community and having them tell you that it’s your fault for closing the laptop in the first place, it’s clearly that’s an insane thing that no human should ever be doing?
So, you’re saying that you tried all of this?
Did I stutter?
Telling me it runs, “League of Legends” is the best way to keep me away.
Telling me Linux can run my weird ass indie games could get me to change my tune though.
It will run all your weird ass indie games.
if it runs neon’s ass indie games, can it run my ass indie games too? I have a lot of ass games
Didn’t ass games get banned by Visa/MasterCard?
For games about ass: run installer if applicable thought Lutris, porn patch if needed, activate if needed with Lutris, and launch with Lutris. Most work just launching the EXE but old RPG maker games are a bit fiicky with the runtime or if they include DRM/keys. I got the run time to work by installing from Steam and adding to launching from wine and Lutris.
Also you may need to extract zips from the command line if they come out looking funny as JP encoding breaks sometimes.
I got more working on Linux than I got working on Windows. Some just work, some need some tinkering.
oh they aren’t about ass, they are just ass the english language really needs more words
Aw, I assed up my interpretation.
protondb.com to check if it runs your weird ass indie games.
No League = perfection
I’ve almost fully moved over to a Linux Mint on a dual boot system but I need Virtual desktop for the Meta Quest and that only works on Microshit.
Monado + WiVRn is what I use, when using ny quest while traveling. Works reasonably well :)
Might need to swap the compositor between Xrizer (default now) and OpenComposite for some games or functionality.
I’ve been using virtualbox and a Windows 10 VM. Easy to set up, if not a bit slow.
I’ve used ALVR to play Underdogs on my Pico 4 on Linux. It can be a bit flakey getting it running though.
Might be worth trying WiVRn, which I’ve linked docs for in reply to the other guy :3
I am dual booting Linux Mint and Windows 10 on my desktop PC, what’s keeping me from switching completely is Lossless Scaling… I didn’t find a similarly hassle-free and functional alternative that would run on Linux
EDIT: Oh, and it’s a huge pain comparatively to overclock my display from 60 to 96 Hz. In Windows it’s a matter of running an executable every time my display driver updates. I gave up and I just boot to Windows anytime I want to take advantage of the higher frequency (which is a lot)
…I don’t understand.
Rather than a program not running being a negative outcome for the user, this is suggesting everyone would see this as a net positive experience that you are unable to run League of Legends in Linux, and that people will flock to Linux upon this discovery
Can’t play ForkKnife neither 😠
Why would you want to play Fortskin?
Fun with the bros (I’m almost 30 😎)
I play Fortnite regularly with two friends, it’s a way to keep the connection when I live across the world. We catch up on our lives while murdering teenagers dressed as spiderman, it’s fun
As a person using Linux and having a separate windows PC to play league of legends:
I fully support this toot!
Exact same thing, except I also use my windows PC for my school exam spyware lol
Lul, thank god they dont have that where I study
Not League specifically, but “Can’t play the top games that most of your friends will be playing, thus alienating you from your friend group until they decide to play an indie title” is not the selling point you think it is…
- Can play the top games that most of your friends will be playing, thus allowing you to game with your friend group, unless you happen to be friends with people who play games that use Kernel level anti cheat.
I know LoL is popular, but I also don’t personally know anyone who plays it. And even if I did I wouldn’t play League with them because I don’t like the game. Not everyone is in the same boat.
Also, this meme is a joke and not meant to be taken seriously.
It be a joke
Can’t play the top games that most of your friends will be playing
“If I don’t have LoL installed, my friends won’t be able to scream ‘I’m dick deep in your dad’s bussy’ on an open mic.”
Imagine how many parents would immediately switch to Linux upon hearing this.
Like what games? Apparently my friends and I aren’t playing “top” games lol
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Linuxbros on Lemmy is what keeps me away. Can’t go one damn day without hearing about Linux Linux Linux, its like a cult
Hello! Do you have a moment to spare to talk about our lord and savior Linus Torvald?
As someone who uses Linux on multiple personal machines even I’m finding it cringe.
Like guys calm down you’re hurting the brand.
So you have no good reason to stick with windows or Mac, and you think you’d benefit from switching to Linux, but there’s too many people who are annoying about Linux so you don’t switch?
Good one.
Imagine going to a pizzeria. You’ve heard great things about it, how tasty it is and how cheap it is. Now once you get in there, there are a ton of people who don’t work there, but are telling you that the burger place down the road is bad because they are expensive and lack options. But everyone you know goes to this burger place. So you decide that a pizza is in order, but all these people are yelling and screaming about how their crust type is the best, and then you have people listing every single topping combination and the benefits of each, but nobody has a consensus on any of it. Only then will you realize that they are all waiting for their own pizza order. And once you actually get to the counter, there is no menu board and you are expected to just order a pizza. The voices of what is the better pizza are drowning out your thoughts on what you actually need, so you leave and get back in line for the same burger every other person is ordering. Maybe I can add cheese, but it’s still the same cheese. That is what the Linux community is like.
I mean kinda. It definitely used to be a lot closer to your analogy. I think for the most part, noobs are directed to a Debian based distro or a gaming arch based distro. All depending on skill level, patience, and how much you care about “extensive support”
I used to exclusively recommend Linux Mint to beginners, but if you ONLY want to game it’s probably better to do something like Cachy or Pop OS. Debian is for people who want extensive 3rd party prebuilt binaries. That’s the closest to windows philosophy you’ll get.
Lastly, I use distro watch to find out more info about new and exciting pizzas.
If anyone cares to know my pizza journey. It was: Ubuntu -> Linux Mint -> Debian -> Manjaro -> Endeavour OS
You should really switch to pizza, bro.
If I bought a computer that came with it sure I’d use it, but anything more is an inconvenience to 90% of people who don’t need their computer to do much
