It’s even worse than you think.
He will become… An engineer.
I can attest to that. Parents tried Linux to prevent me from gaming. Learned to dual boot first, got into security and Linux later and am engineer today. N+=1
parents in the background going “Our plan was a succes”
Then the kid installs Proton and your keikaku* fails miserably.
*TN: keikaku means plan.
I think the plan is more that he’ll be so busy coonfing to optimize his userspace that he’ll have no time to game.
Arch Linux’s time to shine
It comes with Steam by default and is automatically used out of the box when a native linux version of the game isn’t found.
Kinda… you do need to enable it in settings.
Are you sure? I know it was like that when it first came out but I think now they have it enabled by default, just install and run the games under it automatically.
I did not have to enforce proton on cyberpunk which is running using proton 🤔
Only if the game wasn’t tested and verified
I think now it’ll just run it through proton if a native linux release isn’t found. At some point they seem to just have enabled Proton support by default for games that support it. It’s only for games that have a non-functional linux Release that you have to mess with them.
Haha, try installing anything on NixOS before learning how to program
I played so much supertuxkart in middle school, then got pretty good at figuring out how to configure wine to make everything work in high school, and now as an adult wine has gotten so good that I just click on whatever I want to play on steam and 90% of the time it just works flawlessly, I don’t even always remember which games are native and which are running in wine these days.
Anyway yeah, using linux never made me spend less time playing games
Supertuxkart is one of the best games that I’ve ever played.
Mostly because it has a multiplayer mode. Much more than LAN multiplayer, it had options to map controls for the 2nd player on the same keyboard.
Used it to play with my relatives and it was fun.
We didn’t
With an NVidya card
Is that Tom Scott from the future?
It’s Linus Torvalds.
Plan failed, the kid read the man pages and stackoverflow
I think a friend of mine would be delighted to have his children play video games.
They are only consuming [tiktock, yt, other social media].
I think he rather wants his children beating Red Alert campaign, than cpnsum 10s tiktocks.
Modding your first game, opening condigs ans inis, because key-remapping wasn’t a thing…all the gateways to interact with file system.
Learning how to edit config.sys to get sound working without internet help was a rite of passage for many.
The first time I knew I wanted to hack the planet was when I figured out how to edit a config file in Castles II: Siege and Conquest which let me start with max gold and resources so I could finally conquer the entire map and make that smug fucking pope eat my entire ass.
I’m hooking mine up on games as soon as they can hold a mouse and a keyboard, airgap the PC.
My oldest is about ready for her first computer, so I have an ewaste laptop earmarked for Christmas that I’ll have to tweak the configuration a bit more on before then.
She’s been getting better at better playing Minecraft and learning how to ask us how to spell the names of things so she can search for them in Minecraft, and getting pretty good with the mouse and keyboard too
I caught my son using Linux PC and Android tablet at the same time… he was just using the microphone in Gboard to learn to spell out what he wanted to put on his signs in Minecraft Java.
I plan to teach my son how to mod consoles and play retro games on them 😂
I think the only game that’s given me a hard time with linux is Call of Duty
And that’s not to say that you couldn’t get it to work, it was just more than one click to set up so I couldn’t be bothered.
Honestly, probably better of without CoD anyway
That’s why I played bzflag
This got me thinking: If I, for some masochistic reason, decided to switch to MacOS - is it possible to install it on an average PC?
I don’t know of the community is still going with the release of Apple Silicon, but you used to be able to with the Hackintosh project. I can’t imagine you still can with the switch to ARM.
Well, you got to be lucky with your hardware setup, snd it will be hard anyway. Search for hackingtosh. I think, it only works with intel releases of macOS, that has to be altered in some way 🤔
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with a stack of slackware 3.5" installation media next to it…
only with anti-cheat ^^^
