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Between Windows being so unbearably bloated and no way to make anti-cheat really work on Linux, it looks like the consoles win!

_cenw 11mo ago
Or you could miss out on like... 5 games. Competitive games on a controller would be a much larger trade off than dual booting to me.
- donatj 11mo ago
  On Xbox at least Keyboard / Mouse support is decent. I played Fortnite and Minecraft this way for a while. Personal preference, but I'd far rather have a separate device dedicated to gaming than my kernel hacked by anti cheat. https://www.purexbox.com/guides/all-xbox-games-with-mouse-and-keyboard-support https://www.purexbox.com/guides/all-xbox-games-with-mouse-an...
  - int_19h 11mo ago
    The problem is that consoles also tend to have much worse support for modding.
  - _cenw 11mo ago
    The only games on that list that doesn't run on Linux I can spot are Call of Duty and Fortnite.
doener 11mo ago
No modding and higher prices of games on consoles though.
- givemeethekeys 11mo ago
  This is a big, missing piece for sure. I suppose for competitive games though, it's okay to not be able to mod, and for everything else, we have PC's.
komali2 11mo ago
On my PC I can play basically every game ever made in all of human history, minus maybe 7 that use kernel level anti cheat, and a couple PS5 and PS4 exclusives. Other than that I have emulation plus a steam library. I'll take that over a locked in console that can only play 2 generations of games any day! Edit: I'm not sure why the person who replied to me asking about emulators was nuked, emulators are still legal everywhere as far as I know. Anyway tldr go check out emudeck's GitHub repo to see a good list of emulators for basically every platform.
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- simoncion 11mo ago
  > I'm not sure why the person who replied to me asking about emulators was nuked... Wow. They're so nuked, I can't even vouch for them. "Good" to know that's possible on HN, I guess.

_cenw 11mo ago

Or you could miss out on like... 5 games. Competitive games on a controller would be a much larger trade off than dual booting to me.

donatj 11mo ago
On Xbox at least Keyboard / Mouse support is decent. I played Fortnite and Minecraft this way for a while. Personal preference, but I'd far rather have a separate device dedicated to gaming than my kernel hacked by anti cheat. https://www.purexbox.com/guides/all-xbox-games-with-mouse-and-keyboard-support https://www.purexbox.com/guides/all-xbox-games-with-mouse-an...
- int_19h 11mo ago
  The problem is that consoles also tend to have much worse support for modding.
- _cenw 11mo ago
  The only games on that list that doesn't run on Linux I can spot are Call of Duty and Fortnite.

doener 11mo ago

No modding and higher prices of games on consoles though.

givemeethekeys 11mo ago
This is a big, missing piece for sure. I suppose for competitive games though, it's okay to not be able to mod, and for everything else, we have PC's.

komali2 11mo ago

On my PC I can play basically every game ever made in all of human history, minus maybe 7 that use kernel level anti cheat, and a couple PS5 and PS4 exclusives. Other than that I have emulation plus a steam library. I'll take that over a locked in console that can only play 2 generations of games any day! Edit: I'm not sure why the person who replied to me asking about emulators was nuked, emulators are still legal everywhere as far as I know. Anyway tldr go check out emudeck's GitHub repo to see a good list of emulators for basically every platform.

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simoncion 11mo ago
> I'm not sure why the person who replied to me asking about emulators was nuked... Wow. They're so nuked, I can't even vouch for them. "Good" to know that's possible on HN, I guess.