The Duff CEO with a Windows-Logo on his forehead: “Gamers use Windows because of its’ user experience not our de facto monopoly.”

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Edit: Yo, I’m not saying this is gonna happen. I just want to say that Windew’s UX sucks ass.

  • stevedice@sh.itjust.works
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    15 hours ago

    Can I just go to gog.com, download The Witcher 3, click on the installer and have it install? Or do I have to configure some bullshit that’s beyond the capabilities of the regular user before I can do that? You seem to be completely disconnected from real people. Real people also don’t care about what kernel anticheat does and just want it to work.

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      14 hours ago

      I have played a game from GOG on Linux (Icewind Dale), it had Linux download, I opened it and the game played 100%, even multiplayer with non-Linux users.

      Dunno about Witcher 3 specifically.

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        12 hours ago

        It doesn’t. But congratulations on showing that Linux gaming outside of Steam is at exactly the same stage as it was years ago: Most titles don’t work.

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          10 hours ago

          You are just trolling, or being in bad faith.

          I don’t know about Witcher 3, because I didn’t buy it on GOG. I bought it on Steam, works out of the box, no issues.

          So either tell me your experience, or stay on Windows.

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            10 hours ago

            You download it, you click it, and nothing happens because Linux doesn’t run exes, like it was in the 2000s. What did you expect would happen?

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              7 hours ago

              You’ve never heard of AppImages on Linux, that just… open the app on doubleclick? No install or anything?

              Because that’s what I got when I picked ‘Download for Linux’ on GOG…

              Get lost, you know nothing and speak nonsense.

              And don’t forget to mention everywhere how Linux community is hostile, and not you being a sorry excuse for a being.

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                7 hours ago

                That’s what you got on the one game you downloaded, you muppet. It’s not the case for most games. Again, get out of your bubble.

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              9 hours ago

              “It doesn’t work when I make no effort to look up the simple solution that would make it work.”

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                8 hours ago

                Again with this. You can look up the solution, I can look up the solution. Mr. Regular Joe who just got off an 8 hour shift and just wants to play games for an hour doesn’t know or care to know what Wine or Lutris are. You need to get out of your bubble.