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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by Alupis on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:20PM (#16387235)
More and more games are coming to Linux, for sure (I'm a huge fan of games on Linux!), but Linux still is missing the latest-and-greatest AAA titles... think the Call of Duty's, Battlefield's, Skyrim's, Fallout's, Wolfenstein's... and many many more.
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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by nottorp on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:49PM (#16387495)
I find that as I grow older I'm less and less interested in the design-by-commitee AAA crap. The really interesting stuff is mostly in the small fry scene, and those tend to be cross platform.

I do have a Windows install specifically for gaming, but I haven't booted it in ages.

Edit: my main entertainment IS games.

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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by taurath on Thursday February 15, 2018 @04:30PM (#16387814)
My experience is most of the indy games coming out I’m interested in are windows only. Also really good games this generation like Divinity 2 have no Linux support
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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by nottorp on Thursday February 15, 2018 @04:53PM (#16388061)
Well it depends what you like. I never tried any of the Divinitys because I'm under the impression that the storyline is unimaginative and just game mechanics mostly don't cut it for me (let's not mention how much time i spend in Minecraft though).

My 2nd place entertainment activity is reading, and there are few games that can approach a good book in storytelling.

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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by disgruntledphd2 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @05:05PM (#16388181)
I don't normally click on timestamps to add to a deep thread, but if you like good storytelling, check out Pillars of Eternity. If you're a pen-and-paper nerd, then it might be right up your alley and the storytelling is really well done.
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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by nottorp on Friday February 16, 2018 @04:44AM (#16391128)
I was on the kickstarter (same for II) and finished it a while ago, thank you :)
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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by disgruntledphd2 on Friday February 16, 2018 @10:52AM (#16393158)
In that case, thank you for backing! I am currently replaying 1 on POTD, and enjoying every minute (I discovered it too late for the second Kickstarter, unfortunately).
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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by Fnoord on Thursday February 15, 2018 @08:06PM (#16389166)
> Wolfenstein's

The latest ones you meant?

Cause Wolf3D, Return To Castle Wolfenstein, and Return To Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory had native clients in early '00s when I played them. RTCW: ET was even completely free (as in beer). I played it for countless of hours!!

Back in those days we had a few people porting games over such as Ryan Gordon from Icculus or Timothee Besset (TTimo) from ID who ported, perhaps sometimes even as an after thought because the original floppies or CD (!!) didn't contain the Linux client.

We've come a long way. These days, you can just have one application to install a shitload of games (Steam, Humble Bundle) and you can find games for whatever platform you run, pay, install, and run it. With far, far more titles. Add to that: WebGL games are going to work on *NIX out of the box. Like Airmash, for example.

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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by striking on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:31PM (#16387336)
Wine recently got a DX11 layer, so we're a lot closer to that than before.
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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by Bl4ckb0ne on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:34PM (#16387365)
Source : https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk
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