“No, Karen, I won’t hack your WiFi.”

  • ProfHillbilly@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    I am looking at switching to Linux soon. I really want to be able to keep playing my old WH40k games and my City of heroes and my other MMOs. So you are telling me these will run fine on Linux? I am new at this Linux thing so forgive me.

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      25 days ago

      In my experience, Linux has been superior for older games because proton (the compatibility layer that makes windows game work on Linux) has a ton of old windows components packed in that are broken on modern windows.

      The main issue people have these days are with newer multiplayer games and anti-cheat not playing nice with proton.

      Modding can also be a bit of a hurdle if you’re into that sort of thing, but with a bit of work it’s doable.

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        25 days ago

        I have a lifetime STO account and I like to do a taskforce every now and then. Maybe I should just keep a machine that runs my MMOs and do everything else on the Linux machine. EDIT–I just looked this up and it will run through Steam

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          25 days ago

          Most MMOs should be fine. Off the top of my head the games that don’t work because of anti cheat are Destiny, CoD, and the Riot games (League and Valorant)

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      The main hurdle is modern anti cheat. Many old games actually work better on Linux because of fans making dedicated tweaks.