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I seem to be the only guy on lemmy who doesn't know computer shit T-T
What does this mean
It means League of Legends is bad, but Doom is not.
League of Legends is a popular game that has a reputation for having toxic players, as well as requiring kernel-level anti-cheat, which is intrusive and so disliked here, and also does not work on Linux.
Thus, by switching to Linux, you can avoid the unwanted chance of playing League of Legends.
I don't understand. Isn't that show Arcane insanely popular, and a LoL show? How can the game be so disliked, then?
The gameplay and toxic playerbase are disliked. The lore and characters, which is the only thing the show shares with the game, are liked.
It's more abusive relationship lol. You remember it was good, get in, get slapped by community, go away. Repeat later. Or install linux to break the cycle. xD
Thought I was in a Halo thread for a second. Feels the exact same. Now if you'll excuse me I'm gonna go snort Dorito dust and install Halo again
That's nostalgia lying to you.
That's nostalgia lying to you.
League of Legends and other games by the same company require you to run an anti-cheat system that has more control over your computer than even you as an user can ever possibly get while windows is fully loaded. It basically controls windows itself - so all the tools that Linux has to run windows game are ineffective for these. It's like the game is running windows instead of the other way around.
The other point is that games like LoL tend to have a weird effect on people. It's not the case for everyone but most people I've met who play it, absolutely hate the game and feel miserable within minutes once they start playing - but they get cravings for it when they don't. So they keep going back to play more and get mad at it again every day.
At the same time, people who don't play those games and see the toxicity in it often meme about how the world would be better if it didn't exist.
So the OP text is similar to saying something like "there's no cocaine there" being a good selling point for living in some country.
it means league of legends blocks itself from being installed on linux
Interesting choice of instance in that case.
Idk, that seems about right for most of the developers I've known professionally.