The finals game doesnt run on linux so i switched back to windows 11.
Linux is all good if you only play singleplayer games. My friends started playing the finals yesterday and it doesn't run on linux because of EAC. Windows can run all my games without any proton switching and all the nvidia features like ray reconstruction and pathtracing with frame generation just works (alan wake 2 looks so good).
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.
That's mostly true, but they also need to support it, which is a completely different ball of wax which involves QA testing, training support people, etc, perhaps with some dev work to ensure the experience is decent. It's extra work, and many devs don't want to deal with it.
Sometimes no support is better than poor support from a business perspective.
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.
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.
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.
If i use both, that will give me less incentive to be on linux , because windows even though it is annoying with microsoft bloat, everything just works and i will stay there because life is easier.
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
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 www.protondb.com/app/2073850
So it's 100% the developer's choices that have resulted in this train wreck of a thread.
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.
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
If it's that easy, why isn't there a mod or fix for people on Linux to do it themselves?