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Sadly Wine only seems to be working well for games. Every non gaming app I've tried to run does not work. It does seem like Valve and the gaming community is contributing almost all the effort on the project.
I haven't been able to get MSOffice working, but I didn't have much issue getting Toon Boom Animate to work. Which apps give you trouble?
> and modern multiplayer games with anti-cheat simply do not work through a translation layer, something Valve hopes will change in the future. Although this is true for most games it is worth noting that it isn't universally true. Usermode anti-cheat does sometimes work verbatim in Wine, and some anti-cheat software has Proton support, though not all developers elect to enable it.
> though not all developers elect to enable it. Looking at you Rust. Edit: And the rest of you. If even Microsoft's Masterchief Collection supports it, I Don't understand why everyone else does not. https://areweanticheatyet.com/
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Cheaters don't have to play like normal people to avoid detection. They just have to make it expensive to police them. For example, the game developer may be afraid of a even a 10% false positive ban rate, and as a result won't ban anyone except perhaps a small number of clean-cut cases.
Most cheaters are playing well outside of human limits and doing huge amounts of damage to the legitimate player experience. A 10% safety margin beyond human play sounds reasonable. A world where cheaters can only play 10% better than humans is a far better world than the one we are in at the moment.
These players aren't using aimbot / triggerbot (or if they are, they don't understand the gunplay and try to shoot while running), and may not even understand wall penetration, so their reaction times wouldn't look abnormal at all. From the data, they would likely have below average reaction times still.
Even though they are not performing well, their presence still massively alters the gameplay for legitimate players. For one, lurking becomes a pointless endeavor. You're better off rushing wildly than attempting any sort of stealth.
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I haven't been able to get MSOffice working, but I didn't have much issue getting Toon Boom Animate to work. Which apps give you trouble?
I've tried a range of DJ software and they are all broken in Wine.
[0]: https://erhan.es/blog/using-pioneer-controller-with-rekordbo...
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Advertising in general is absolutely abusive. I like to think of advertising as mind rape: it forcibly inserts brands and trademarks into your mind while you're trying to read or watch something. On the other hand, I don't classify what Steam is doing as advertising. When I open the Steam store, it's because I want to see the games it has on sale. It's not advertising, it's the exact information I asked for. It would…
Just because most advertising is abusive doesn't mean that all of it is. The popups that Steam shows when you open it are definitely still advertising, as are the recommendations for other games and things like that. Ironically, this is exactly the reason why most other ad networks go to such lengths to track you, because they think they want to show you ads you'd find relevant and thus worthwhile to click on. Unfort…
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> as are the recommendations for other games and things like that
I asked for this when I opened the Steam store. It's not advertising, it's just the exact information I wanted. I went to the market to see products, and they showed me products.
If they start bringing the products to my home by plastering ads on billboards all over the place then it's advertising and abusive.
> That is why I will permanently have an adblocker
I recommend the same to everyone.
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The marketing works because online games get destroyed by cheats. Losing in online games can be full of “feel bad” moments, even without cheaters (network issues, cheesy tactics, balance issues). To think that your opponent won because they outright cheated just makes you wanna quit. I’ve seen so many players saying “look you can own my entire pc just please eliminate the cheating.” It would be great to see more of a…
The marketing works because of what I said: people are dumb. Anyone that's not dumb will know (maybe after the heat of the moment) why they lost, but the vast majority of people will blame anything they can instead. Teammates, lag, the developers, etc. Cheating is merely one of these excuses. > I’ve seen so many players saying “look you can own my entire pc just please eliminate the cheating.” This entire idea is so…
Cheating is a very real problem in most competitive matchmade video games. The fact that you think that this is an "excuse" conclusively indicates that you don't actually have experience with them and that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
> This entire idea is so dumb it makes my head hurt. You can't eliminate bad actors no matter how hard you try. It's impossible in the real world. ... Even if a single person bypasses it, we can question everything.
This is clinically insane. 99.999% of people, including most of those two-sigma below the mean in terms of intelligence, correctly recognize how stupid of an argument this is, and that eliminating the majority of crime/cheating is absolutely a huge victory that is worth sacrificing for.
Think about that - some of the dumbest people in our society realize that the argument "if we can't stop every criminal/cheater, then there's no point in trying" is bad. What does that make you?
(it's also abundantly clear that you have zero experience in finance or security, either, because anyone competent in those fields can tell you exactly what it means to impose costs on an adversary and why your argument is factually incorrect)