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Now when trying to activate the OS by attempting to call the phone number for Microsoft Product Activation, an automated voice response says the following: "Support for product activation has moved online.

Linux is this way, guys.

  • BobbyTables@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    7 months ago

    Not judging, just curious.

    What games are those? In the last 12 months I tried 151 games on Linux. All of them worked, only 6 required tinkering.

    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      24·
      7 months ago

      The fact they mentioned “anti cheat”, it’s going to be your modern online multiplayer games. It’s going to be games like Fortnite, PUBG, Call of Duty, Battlefield, etc.

        • Octoham@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          7 months ago

          sadly most online mp games have kernel-level anti-cheat that doesn’t run on linux

          • Glog78@digitalcourage.social
            1·
            7 months ago

            @octoham

            i can’t agree with this general statement. i guess it’s important to understand that a lot of the multiplayer games you wanna currently play have some kind of protection which makes it currently not suitable to run on linux.

            just to give a different view mp games which currently seem to work ( checked protondb ):
            - Eldenring Nightreign
            - Dark and Darker (used to work)
            - Helldivers & Helldivers 2
            - Arc Raiders
            - Counter Strike
            - Overwatch
            - DOOM in very different versions
            - Quake Live
            - Hunt Showdown 1896
            - Dead by Daylight
            - Warframe

            with all respect for the games you currently love so much, please don’t make general statements.

            A personal advice i want to give: Only change to linux if you are also willing to change yourself and adapt. Linux is not Windows like, Mac OS is not Windows , like a Playstation is not a XBOX or a Switch.

            • Octoham@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              7 months ago

              i know a lot of the mp games i play have an anti-cheat that doesn’t support linux, i’m blaming the AC devs here, not linux.

              as for my general statement, i used this handy little website: https://areweanticheatyet.com/

              note how i said most mp games w anti-cheat can’t run on linux. i think 59% qualifies as ‘most’.

              i’m rlly not sure why you’re so defensive here ngl, i love linux. i use linux on one of my pcs for development, i’m not attacking linux in any way.

        • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          Sure, there are alternatives for the games I listed, but if all your friends are playing any of the games I listed, you don’t have many options for Linux outside of something like Shadow or GeForce Now, which admittedly is a pretty solid option for online-only games if you live near their servers.

    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      7 months ago

      You must not play most of the top 5 fps games then lol.

      Literally everything a “normal” gamer plays is not supported on linux.

      • Jaysyn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        Awesome find.

        Looking at the first 4 pages, you’d have to pay me to play the “denied” games.

        I’m not missing a damn thing. :D

    • darkstar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Not the original commenter, but for me it’s Arc Raiders. I’m a fan of extraction shooters and have been messing with the idea of fully switching to Linux and ditching microslop completely, aaaaaaand then Arc Raiders was released