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‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game

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    hubi@feddit.org
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      td_sp@lemmynsfw.com
      wrote on 16 May 2025, 01:08 last edited by
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      but the linux circlejerk swears game support is on par with windows!

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        16 May 2025, 01:08

        but the linux circlejerk swears game support is on par with windows!

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        trickdacy@lemmy.world
        wrote on 16 May 2025, 04:42 last edited by
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        And the windows circlejerk says private, secure, performant OSes that also play most games are trash not worth trying. Hm.

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        • T trickdacy@lemmy.world
          16 May 2025, 04:42

          And the windows circlejerk says private, secure, performant OSes that also play most games are trash not worth trying. Hm.

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          bitjunkie@lemmy.world
          wrote on 16 May 2025, 14:45 last edited by
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          It's not a circlejerk to want to play a game I've paid for

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            16 May 2025, 14:45

            It's not a circlejerk to want to play a game I've paid for

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            trickdacy@lemmy.world
            wrote on 16 May 2025, 14:52 last edited by
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            Weirdly defensive about something that you yourself admitted that no one accused you of being

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              16 May 2025, 14:52

              Weirdly defensive about something that you yourself admitted that no one accused you of being

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              bitjunkie@lemmy.world
              wrote on 16 May 2025, 17:06 last edited by
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              I'm saying calling it a circlejerk to still be on Windows is unnecessarily derisive when the post I was responding to even calls out that Linux alternatives play most games. Most games is not all of my games. I'm not a Microsoft fanboy by any stretch, but if it's the only way to play a game I want to play, that is what I'll do.

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                16 May 2025, 17:06

                I'm saying calling it a circlejerk to still be on Windows is unnecessarily derisive when the post I was responding to even calls out that Linux alternatives play most games. Most games is not all of my games. I'm not a Microsoft fanboy by any stretch, but if it's the only way to play a game I want to play, that is what I'll do.

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                trickdacy@lemmy.world
                wrote on 16 May 2025, 18:14 last edited by
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                I despise the term "circlejerk" and was only using it sarcastically. But in any case, I do grow tired of people shitting on linux. The reasons? I have explained a million times.

                I mean, either deal with windows and its 1000 flaws or the same with linux. Some of us would just rather deal with flaws that are honest. I'd rather deal with a bug that 100 people around the globe work together to fix in a timely matter than deal with shit-ass "features" that actively ruin my experience because some disgusting executives want to buy more Porsches this summer. While pretending to care about me as a customer.

                Cue "I just want to play games". Well yeah me too sometimes. Now that I have an AMD card, I never have a problem with it. I spent a lot of time testing my games and 86% worked fine. This included a lot of sketchy/old games (Jedi Knight 1 and 2 for example -- those barely can work on anything newer than win 98) that I didn't expect to work actually... If we're only talking new games, it's probably like 95%. I don't play games enough to care about an occasional poorly-written game not working.

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                  16 May 2025, 18:14

                  I despise the term "circlejerk" and was only using it sarcastically. But in any case, I do grow tired of people shitting on linux. The reasons? I have explained a million times.

                  I mean, either deal with windows and its 1000 flaws or the same with linux. Some of us would just rather deal with flaws that are honest. I'd rather deal with a bug that 100 people around the globe work together to fix in a timely matter than deal with shit-ass "features" that actively ruin my experience because some disgusting executives want to buy more Porsches this summer. While pretending to care about me as a customer.

                  Cue "I just want to play games". Well yeah me too sometimes. Now that I have an AMD card, I never have a problem with it. I spent a lot of time testing my games and 86% worked fine. This included a lot of sketchy/old games (Jedi Knight 1 and 2 for example -- those barely can work on anything newer than win 98) that I didn't expect to work actually... If we're only talking new games, it's probably like 95%. I don't play games enough to care about an occasional poorly-written game not working.

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                  bitjunkie@lemmy.world
                  wrote on 18 May 2025, 23:05 last edited by
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                  To each his own. I wasn't knocking Linux, just responding to what I interpreted as an insinuation that anyone has a shrine to Bill Gates in their closet just because they still haven't made the jump.

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                  • B bitjunkie@lemmy.world
                    18 May 2025, 23:05

                    To each his own. I wasn't knocking Linux, just responding to what I interpreted as an insinuation that anyone has a shrine to Bill Gates in their closet just because they still haven't made the jump.

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                    trickdacy@lemmy.world
                    wrote on 19 May 2025, 01:31 last edited by
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                    I get that. I do think some people are pretty closed minded on the topic but you don't seem to fit that bill. MS is not playing the long game though. Even my brother who has been against the idea of Linux forever is coming around. He's installed it and playing around with it lately. He might just convert one day...

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                      19 May 2025, 01:31

                      I get that. I do think some people are pretty closed minded on the topic but you don't seem to fit that bill. MS is not playing the long game though. Even my brother who has been against the idea of Linux forever is coming around. He's installed it and playing around with it lately. He might just convert one day...

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                      bitjunkie@lemmy.world
                      wrote on 21 May 2025, 13:38 last edited by
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                      That's aligned for the moment because I'm not playing the long game, either. I'd ditch Windows at a moment's notice if not for a handful of "must-have" games that protondb says still require tweaking. I configure system crap all day at work; I categorically refuse to do any of that in my already sparse game time.

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                        21 May 2025, 13:38

                        That's aligned for the moment because I'm not playing the long game, either. I'd ditch Windows at a moment's notice if not for a handful of "must-have" games that protondb says still require tweaking. I configure system crap all day at work; I categorically refuse to do any of that in my already sparse game time.

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                        trickdacy@lemmy.world
                        wrote on 21 May 2025, 14:16 last edited by
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                        You're trying to tell me windows "just works"?

                        Between updates taking time and breaking shit, drivers constantly demanding updates, auto start programs that slow your machine down and pop up prompts, new "features" in windows asking your time, literal ads in the OS, and I'm sure I could list more examples if I took time, windows hasn't "just worked" for me in a long time. I was a daily power user of it from about 1997-2014. Which is why I hate it. On Linux, out of that list I experience an update breaking something once or twice a year, and sometimes having to copy paste some config vars on a game. Sometimes (like one in ten).

                        When I had an Nvidia card it was admittedly different. Not very stable because Nvidia chooses to be assholes. On an AMD card things are solid. Not much configuration when I do game

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