this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2024
88 points (98.9% liked)

Linux Gaming

15500 readers
590 users here now

Discussions and news about gaming on the GNU/Linux family of operating systems (including the Steam Deck). Potentially a $HOME away from home for disgruntled /r/linux_gaming denizens of the redditarian demesne.

This page can be subscribed to via RSS.

Original /r/linux_gaming pengwing by uoou.

Resources

WWW:

Discord:

IRC:

Matrix:

Telegram:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
88
ZOOM Platform store announces new tool to run Windows games on Linux with Proton (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
top 6 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I created an account there an eternity ago when I first heard about them to reserve my username just in case but I will never consider a platform that cannot package their launcher/tool/software correctly and instead shoves a complex curl-to-bash script embedding binary data and a whole lot of other anti-pattern up my throat that is the least trustworthy and safest method of distributing your software.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Very cool

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Original source instead of blogspam: https://www.zoom-platform.com/news/playing-your-zoom-platform-windows-games-on-linux-is-now-simplified

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Exactly.

Not to mention that the owner of this site, gamingonlinux, was a mod on the [email protected] community until they were caught abusing their moderator powers. Then they deleted their account and complained on mastodon that it's stupid design that mod logs are public. [Screenshot]

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nice. The adoption of Glorious Egroll's UMU project is a good thing for all.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

That's what I love about open source. Things build on other things iteratively, from Wine to DXVK to gamemode to Proton to UMU to various launchers like Zoom, Lutris, Heroic, minigalaxy.

Sure things can be deprecated and out of maintenance in both open and closed source systems, but with proprietary code being dropped your only option is reverse engineering it which is that much more of a barrier.