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Cool, so since you left linux why are you posting this here?
We all know windows is more compatible by design of the capitalism machine, we left it by choice for a reason.
it doesn't run on linux because of EAC
Nah, it doesn't work because the developer doesn't want it to. EAC works really well on Linux, the developer just has to enable it, which takes literally less than 10 seconds.
All the developer needs to do is push a button to make EAC work. They're probably busy hotfixing the 1.0 but I'm sure it'll work soon, they are excluding all steam deck users by not pressing it
Edit: apparently it's not EAC that is the problem. The game has its own anti-cheat which also potentially bans your account if you try to play on linux https://www.protondb.com/app/2073850
The Finals use EAC and their own anti-cheat, the latter causes issues
*Linux is all good if you don't play competitive multiplayer games where the developers don't want to enable EAC for Linux.
There, fixed that for you.
Surprised that people even still play Nexon trash to be honest.
Why is everyone always so stuck to one side or the other? Dual booting is a thing. You can have your cake and eat it too.
Just FYI, the expression makes more sense the other way around:
You can't eat your cake and have it too.
And yeah, dual booting is absolutely a thing. That said, I find rebooting to play a game silly, so I just avoid stuff that doesn't work on Linux. I can totally see the opposite perspective as well.
My linux usually boots very fast while Windows takes its sweet time, but still within 5m from power on to everything is up and warmed up.
So not something that stops me from rebooting to play a particular game
It's not boot time, but context switching (close apps and whatnot). I suppose I could hibernate, but I still lose access to my network services, like my kids' Minecraft server and network shares. And then Windows usually has massive updates because I launch it so rarely.
If I play on Linux, I just launch the game, and that's it.
Before Steam came to Linux, I just didn't play games very often. Now that most games work, I can just push play and I'm in a game, so I play a lot more games.
Bait post aside, I never really understood why people make a big deal of "switching" to Linux or back to Windows.
An OS install is like 60 GiB. If you're a pro hacker gamer you probably have over a TiB of fast storage. Just keep the Windows install around and dual boot into it when/if you need it.
Pains me to see people saying "I permanently switched to Linux and deleted my Windows install", when you can keep it around for emergencies or modding.
Yup.
I have only booted into my Windows install like 2-3 times in the past 5-10 years or so. But I still have it, it just lives on a separate SSD and I just forget it exists. I've only booted in to set up Minecraft Bedrock (kids wanted cross play, but their friends flaked), one time to run updates (was going to upgrade to Win 11, but it hated my processor; maybe my new one works), and to test a couple things in Windows. That's it.
When Microsoft EOLs Win 10, I might go through the trouble of upgrading it again. I don't see much value in it, but it costs me nothing to keep it around. I'm not even sure if it still works after I upgraded the CPU and GPU, but I guess I'll find out the next time I try to boot it.
So some random new game is enough for you to change your whole operating system?
I just kept Linux on my PC and bought an XBox because Windows isn't good for much else.
I just don't play games that don't work on Linux. I use Linux for other reasons, gaming is just the cherry on top. I have 100 or so games on my wishlist and hundreds of unplayed games in my library that all work fine on Linux, so I'm not hurting for choice.
Funny thing is that the game would probably work close to perfect if the devs just switched on the linux support in EAC. Sadly, it's just isn't worth for the devs. Linux user pool is too small and those who would play would generate new bug reports due to unconventional setup running through a compatibility layer.
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