You can run them alternative ways usually. Fortnite works with mouse and keyboard through gamepads, although gamepads is a shit deal just for fortnite.
I know a lot of people dual boot or us a virtual machine with windows on it too.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
The only ones that wouldn’t work are probably the ones with kernel level anti cheat. Maybe if I would be much younger, I might have had different opinion, but, as of today, I believe that all these games that wont run on Linux due to anti-cheat are cancer anyway.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Fortnite works with mouse and keyboard through gamepass
Only local streaming from an Xbox. Streaming from their website requires a controller and I’ve never been able to get a controller to work with a browser on Linux. Well, on Bazzite at least.
Saprophyte@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I use a Microsoft Xbox One controller I use to play game pass games on Edge. I use Debian, but it was recognized and worked when I paired it in Bluetooth
Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I tried Floorp and Ungoogled Chromium, and I could only get them to detect my controller if I plugged it in while on the page. If I already had it plugged in, it just wouldn’t work. Tried some online HID testers and determined it wasn’t specific to the website. IDK.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Ive literally done it, but thats not to say it might not work all the time or under all configurations. I was using I think librefox and an 8bitdo pro2 controller.
Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Done what? Used mouse+keyboard for streaming without a console at xbox.com/play? If so, I dunno what to say, I tried on both Windows and Linux under two Firefox browsers on Windows and Firefox and Chromium on Linux. Booting any game presents me with a console UI and doesn’t respond to any keyboard input.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
In my experience AAA games from around 2000s and early 2010s often have problems running in Linux, especially if they have DRM.
In some cases a pirated version will run just fine whilst the official one won’t.
desertdruid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
in my experience it’s the exact same situation on Windows
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
Funnilly enough plenty (if not most) games which won’t at all run in a more recent Windows like Windows 10 and Windows 11 run just fine in Linux via Wine.
All in all if we consider the full or near full timeframe for “windows games” (say, all the way back to Win95) I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out that a present day Linux distro can run more “windows games” as Windows 11.
One of the more entertaining (though hardly unexpected) discoveries for me when I moved from Windows to Linux on my gaming machine was that several of the games I owned which I could not get to run in Windows, worked fine in Linux.
Jeffool@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Kernel level anti-cheat is what’s probably going to keep me on Windows for a while. I get those games aren’t for everyone, but I like them well enough, and that’s what my friend group plays. Warzone, DMZ, and going to try RedSec tomorrow. Kind of a shame. Otherwise I’d love to make the jump. As it is I’ll probably see about dual booting when I get my next PC in a year or two.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 2 days ago
You have thousand of other games you can play that don’t require kernel level anti cheat, don’t be a fool
Jeffool@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I respect where you’re coming from, but a) “fool” is literally in my name. And b) you’re saying “there are other good games, leave those games you’re enjoying.” But you’re also saying “there are other people, leave your friends and family that you play with.” And that’s a little different.
GreatRam@lemmy.world 1 day ago
More like Jeffcool
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 1 day ago
You should try to strengthen your relationship so that they don’t spin around a specific videogame. What happens if you get banned or the requirements for playing the game becomes even more stupid?