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Switch 2 Has to Face a Problem the Original Didn’t: Handheld Gaming PCs (www.ign.com)

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Plus it cannot play some of the most popular PC games on the planet (Fortnite, LoL, Roblox, etc).

Out of the loop. Why is this?

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 21 points 3 days ago

Mostly due to lack of support from the developers, but that often reaches into willful obstruction. People are stubborn and clever, if it can run on windows it can likely run on Linux, but the devs will sometimes put willful roadblocks against things running on Linux. Allegedly to stop cheats, though since most anti cheat software does support Linux I think they just don't want to deal with the OS.

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago

League of Legends used to work until they brought their kernel level anti-cheat from Valorant into League as well.

[–] NeryK@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

Most of the time it's because client-side anti-cheat is not being well or at all supported on Linux.

For instance Roblox used to run on Linux through launchers such as Grapejuice or Vinegar. However the devs now explicitely block Roblox player on Linux due to a large quantity of cheaters coming from there according to their stats. Since their actual Linux userbase is minuscule compared to other platforms, they just chose go the easy (and probably financially sane) route.

As for Fortnite, it's all about the ROI baby !

Why is Fortnite still not playable on Steam Deck?

If we only had a few more programmers. It’s the Linux problem. I love the Steam Deck hardware. Valve has done an amazing job there; I wish they would get to tens of millions of users, at which point it would actually make sense to support it.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

If you install windows it can, but natively it can't as those games don't support Linux. However, you loose a lot of the value of the steamdeck (SteamOS) by installing windows.

Also windows sucks on a handheld. I dual booted for a while, but it's just not really worth it.