Ok guys we’ve got to know the truth
Gnu/Linux is one of the most important operating systems on the planet, has a lot of support for using programs made for PC, but, not for linux, but for microsoft windows instead.
It must seem novel, on a gnu/linux forum, to see the words ‘microsoft windows’ mentioned at all, much less expanded on, and contrasted in depth. It’s so rare to see microsoft mentioned in a forum about linux, but in practically every case the context of discussions on linux forums, is in fact, the PC operating system, and the microsoft windows overlay of that operating system.
We here in gnu/linux world, we want to use our PC operating system too, just like everybody else, but we just so happen to have chosen, a different installation cd, for our interface to that PC operating system, choosing the installation cd for gnu/linux, and NOT the installation cd for microsoft windows.
And we have an objective, a specific objective for gnu/linux, and that specific objective: is to play video games made for microsoft windows: but on gnu/linux.
There is no other way to put it, if we want to appropriately solve this modern day problem.
We don’t want to just play any video games whatsoever, we want to play THE BEST video games, games that were not made for gnu/linux, but for a microsoft windows computer, which shares the primary hardware base with gnu/linux called the PC operating system.
Gnu/linux gets great performance on games that were made ten years ago or are older. In a single sentence, this is the whole situation we are dealing with. If the game is ten years or older, uses directx10, wasn’t based on directx11, and wasn’t based on directx12, then gnu/linux, gets stellar performance that microsoft can’t beat!
There is no other subject matter, when it comes to gaming on gnu/linux. The only subject, is as to how it can deal with different games made for microsoft windows, because those are all the best games we actually want to play.
And there’s a ton of issues involved surrounding this situation. One of the chief issues involved, is misinformation, and if you can’t recognize misinformation in the modern world (2025) or refuse to acknowledge it’s existence, then you are wasting our time, which explicitly has to sort through misinformation, to find all of the good information.
#ComputerPolitics
People report that their accounts are being banned for attempting to use the games they paid for, popular new games, of very large wealthy gaming companies,
See this thread for reference
That quote btw, is about a blizzard/activision game two companies that Microsoft Windows bought for 80 billion dollars. The largest transaction in video game history. A company owned by Microsoft has programmed a game to ban players, or directed it’s team to do so, to ban players that attempt to log in, using Gnu/Linux, which they can clearly identify. A game that cost these players, between 60-80$ each.
Here’s another quote from that same thread about “cold war”
One person reports the game is working ‘flawlessly’ on Gnu/Linux. Maybe because of the fact it’s working so good, compared to Microsoft, that it caused them to react so violently to it’s innocent user base, and ban them all.
The context of these issues, just balloons when we finally avoid talking to hate and denial on these forums, and delve right into them.
Some games work good, some games work great, sometimes the developer wants to support gnu/linux, sometimes the developer is compelled to ban them, and delete their posts and deny their existence! And many games, sadly, do not work good or great, but work very badly, and sometimes they wont even work at all.
Then there are all the projects that support playing games, with gnu/linux, and these even give us unique experiences. Sometimes we need to seek out for example, the older versions of drivers, or the older versions of supporting software, such as wine-proton, in order to get games working, or simply to improve the experience of games that are already working.
And ultimately, after all is said and done, the secret to unraveling all of this madness, is to admit the truth: that what we are trying to do, is use games that were developed for a Microsoft Windows PC based operating system, with a new Gnu/Linux PC based operating system.
Microsoft Windows, for example, has a system kernel, just like the the system kernel for Gnu, called linux. And in order to get good gaming performance on Microsoft, users are given some options to alter the kernel, and Microsoft alters it’s systems kernel, to benefit user applications furthermore.
Then there are graphics drivers, and supporting libraries, and apart from the PC operating system beneath our virtual OS called Gnu, or called Windows, these are the primary factors involved in determining the gaming experience.
The system kernel + the graphics driver/libraries + the PC operating system.
That’s it. These are the primary elements we need to be concerned with, in order to achieve our goal, of getting great gaming performance on Gnu. And we need to emulate the methods utilized by Microsoft in order to give it’s users a great gaming experience, which means we need to utterly annihilate the competition, and wield our political leverage over our user base like a club to bash out the brains of our ideological opponents, who advocate, no, not for that installation cd, but yes, for another.