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Fort33dople
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Windows is ending support for what I would consider a vast majority of gaming PCs and laptops by ending Windows 10 support by 2025, and switching to what, currently is looking an awful lot like a closed hardware model for Windows 11, and with rumors of an AI based Windows 12 (and excessively wasteful hardware requirements therein). Meanwhile, the Linux-based Steam Deck is getting really popular.

I don't know about you all, but I spent years on my build, and I don't intend to throw it away in 2025. I think having a gaming PC is still a large part of being a PC gamer, and devices like the Steam Deck will be a large part of being a PC gamer in the future, and since currently it looks like Windows is going to, in essence drop support for this market, and Apple has never had support for this market, while I don't expect this kind of change to happen overnight, I do think a lot of us will move to Linux. Even a lot of us who don't think they would ever move to Linux, I think will be moving to Linux in the form of devices like the Steam Deck. As 2025 approaches, unless Windows vastly changes it's plans for Windows 11 and 12, I think it is going to become pretty clear, that it's easier to change out software than hardware. As it stands now, Linux looks like the future of gaming, and I think we will all appreciate the work going into a high quality native Linux port in 2025.

29-May-2023 17:12:58

Rikornak
Oct Member 2013

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RS is perfectly playable with steam with proton enabled - so the steam deck should work as well, it's not even hacking something together (such as getting the jagex launcher to run or so), it's just switching a toggle in steam and installing RS on your linux device via steam.

Of course native support would be better, but it seems like they currently do not deem it as economically feasible. The OS team gave something like that away when they were asked why their launcher wasn't natively supported. Improvements: Tooltip / (F2P) QoL v2
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29-May-2023 17:33:29 - Last edited on 29-May-2023 17:40:40 by Rikornak

Glavikinn
Nov Member 2023

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Rikornak said :
RS is perfectly playable with steam with proton enabled - so the steam deck should work as well, it's not even hacking something together (such as getting the jagex launcher to run or so), it's just switching a toggle in steam and installing RS on your linux device via steam.

Of course native support would be better, but it seems like they currently do not deem it as economically feasible. The OS team gave something like that away when they were asked why their launcher wasn't natively supported.

Well to be frank the Steam client has had accusations of players having their accounts and pins hacked on the steam client so PR isn't really strong in that case, secondly anytime you use Steam/Proton or Lutris you're taking a risk with anti-cheat thinking you're trying to sandbox it or something and often leads to players getting banned for using linux lastly Linux is growing so fast it's about to surpass Mac in both total users and Total users gaming with a whopping 14% of the Market using Non Windows/Mac PCs of that 1.38% of gamers use Linux while 2.48% of the Mac users game on Mac if you were to convert that to actual users based on a extremely rough estimate you'd see 1%=~25m users and that's extremely conservative. So yes linux should have it's own native client

Support OS Agnosticism! It shouldn't matter what you play on just that you enjoy playing on it.

My forum post appealing to Jagex to make a native launcher
QFC = 16-17-596-66283467 The Linuxian Sage has spoken.

15-Jul-2023 00:33:38 - Last edited on 15-Jul-2023 00:36:36 by Glavikinn

Rikornak
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Linux has reached a market share of 3 % on the desktop - being an all time high - so obviously it may be growing, but from an extremely low level - we'll see if it can benefit from microsoft eventually forcing windows users to migrate to windows 11 - or if they suddenly decide if those ludicrous system requirements aren't needed any more for some reason, so the ones who don't buy new hardware wouldn't be forced to stay at an unsupported 10 or migrate to an entirely different ecosystem - the crap that company pulls up for desktop users for over a decade obviously is the reason why they're below a 70 % market share by now. But yeah - that's 2 more years and a lot can happen in that time.

Those 3 % can actually be higher since this are web statistics and a more than dedicated linux gaming device - the steam deck - usually isn't used to browse the web. Mac devices have a market share of 21 %. Yeah on steam those numbers obviously are closer - but that's given, that said steam deck does exist.

Obviously I would support a native client. Especially since Jagex caters a lot to niche groups, like the ones using a rather unused 3rd party client for OS, which currently is unsupported by the jagex launcher (and in extension account) as well - they said there they'll eventually support it. For Linux they said - hack it yourself together. This was the result of a poll they ran for a while in OS community - obviously you're not alone, just not plentiful enough from them deeming worth the effort to do it themselves. Improvements: Tooltip / (F2P) QoL v2
Quick Fixes: Invention

16-Jul-2023 06:05:57 - Last edited on 16-Jul-2023 07:20:38 by Rikornak

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