On 28 Feb 2025, Android8675 said the following...

I got into Minecraft when my daughter expressed an interest, she picks
it up from time to time, she built a world with just horse stuff and modded it herself. I moved her world to a server so she can pop on whenever she feels like it. I just figured out how to make it easy for
her friends to play with her too.

i've always enjoyed minecraft as well. me and my brother usually end up playing it after enough random new things have ended up in the game. that and there are some incredible mods if you're into that.

i duno if it's still maintained but there was one that added guns, gunsmithing, crafting ammo, grenades, etc etc.. and then another that added all the doom enemies to the nether. made for a pretty great combo heheh

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Android8675 wrote to Nightfox <=-

I got into Minecraft when my daughter expressed an interest, she picks
it up from time to time, she built a world with just horse stuff and modded it herself. I moved her world to a server so she can pop on whenever she feels like it. I just figured out how to make it easy for
her friends to play with her too.

I agree with NF, the gameplay is amazing. It's not about the graphics,
but the graphics are next level beautiful, and anyone that says
otherwise has never taken the time to play it.

I see they're making a minecraft movie, and it's going to be in 3d. I'd
see that.

I played with the early versions of Minecraft, and was amazed at
building when you don't have to worry about gravity. I mostly tried to
see how high I could go.

I really got into C418, the musician who wrote the piano pieces that
would play during the game. He's got a bunch of music online.




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Re: What's Your Go-to OS
By: Nightfox to Accession on Sat Feb 22 2025 09:20 pm

I'd like to see more Linux support for gaming too. It sounds like it has

You have plenty of commercial support nowadays. It is brutal. There is an incoming Linux Magazine article about that, by the way.

See, Steam has devoted a whole lot of money into designing a handheld computer and a Linux distribution to slap on it, designed specifically for playing commercial games on Linux, as a strategic moove to cease depending on Windows.

Nowadays, you can just install a game manager such as Lutris or Heroic Launcher and link it to a commercial games provider (such as Steam, GOG or Epic). You can download and install any games you have licensed under those platforms automatically because these launchers come with pre-configured install scripts. Installing a GOG game in Lutris is about as hard as installing a regular Steam game using the Steam client, which is to say it isn't. Now a game being Windows-only is no longer an issue.

Nowadays you are only really pressed when you want to play Windows 95 stuff, because those games don't run well on Wine nor Proton, but you can't run them directly on Dosbox. I find you can solve the issue for most of those titles by installing Windows 95 in Dosbox-x and running the games from there.
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Re: What's Your Go-to OS
By: Accession to Nightfox on Sun Feb 23 2025 06:29 am

The last bit of news on their website is from November 2023. Has it been abandoned already? Their site also says 10% of games have been verified, 60% are 'playable' (whatever that means, still somewhat broken possibly?), and 30% is unsupported. I'd definitely agree that's a little ways, and not making strides by any means.

"Playable" usually means the game is perfectly fine, but has some issue that prevents it from being considered perfect. Usually it is something stupid like the fonts of some menu not being the proper size. If a game is deemed "Playable" then it is most often possible to play the game from start to finish.

Wine and the like are actually quite performant. They are native grade, I dare say. What they do for the most part is to hijack library calls from the game and direct them to Windowesque libraries. It is not like you are running a Windows kernel in the background.

These projects are going nowhere. Steam is just making so much money from selling SteamDecks. Besides, they have a strategic interest in not being dependant on Microsoft.


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Re: What's Your Go-to OS
By: Arelor to Nightfox on Sun Mar 02 2025 07:30 am

I'd like to see more Linux support for gaming too. It sounds like it has

You have plenty of commercial support nowadays. It is brutal. There is an incoming Linux Magazine article about that, by the way.

See, Steam has devoted a whole lot of money into designing a handheld computer and a Linux distribution to slap on it, designed specifically for playing commercial games on Linux, as a strategic moove to cease depending on Windows.

I'm aware of that. Have you tried it though? Many people have said many Windows games still have trouble running in Linux or won't run at all. I've tried it myself and have been unable to run a few of the games I like to play. Also, there are some demanding Windows games that I like (such as Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024) that I just don't think would run in Linux.

Also, native Linux versions would be even more ideal than having a compatibility layer to run Windows games in Linux.

Nightfox

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Re: What's Your Go-to OS
By: Nightfox to Arelor on Sun Mar 02 2025 01:20 pm

I'm aware of that. Have you tried it though? Many people have said many Windows games still have trouble running in Linux or won't run at all. I've tried it myself and have been unable to run a few of the games I like to play. Also, there are some demanding Windows games that I like (such as Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024) that I just don't think would run in Linux.

I ran Bazzite for a couple of months, then wrote an article about it. The results were sound enough that I bought a SteamDeck for personal use.

Compatibility is not perfect but a significant percentage of the games I want to run work GreatTM and the overwhelmingly most works well enough. The real trick is using some means of automation in order to install the games, so you don't have to do it all manually yourself. Stuff like Lutris is great because it installs your games for you with known good configurations using community scripts.

Also, lots of games made with Unity get Linux native versions.

I don't play particularly new stuff, but I have found you can run most of the games most of the time. If you want 100% compatibility you are out of luck, but at this point of Computer History you are screwed with Windows there too.


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