Hubi@feddit.org to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 hours ago‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Gamewww.404media.coexternal-linkmessage-square155linkfedilinkarrow-up1589arrow-down19
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minus-squaremissingno@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up40arrow-down2·23 hours agoThis is why native support still matters. Anything not supported can pull the rug out from under you at any time.
minus-squareampersandrew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 hours agoI’m not following your argument. You’re perfectly capable of having the rug pulled out from under you with a native Linux build too.
minus-squareImplyingImplications@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down2·22 hours agoExcept for when glibc updates and breaks games with native support (but not the ones running through a compatibility layer). Although that definitely happens way less than devs purposefully pushing changes that break on Linux.
minus-squareDamage@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·15 hours agoYeah, games through Proton are a bit like containerized apps, you get everything you need to run them in the Proton package.
minus-squarezurohki@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-219 hours agoIt looks like that got fixed anyway.
This is why native support still matters. Anything not supported can pull the rug out from under you at any time.
I’m not following your argument. You’re perfectly capable of having the rug pulled out from under you with a native Linux build too.
Except for when glibc updates and breaks games with native support (but not the ones running through a compatibility layer). Although that definitely happens way less than devs purposefully pushing changes that break on Linux.
Yeah, games through Proton are a bit like containerized apps, you get everything you need to run them in the Proton package.
It looks like that got fixed anyway.