I’d offer to look into this for a native Linux program, but I don’t have a Wii U, so debugging would be a chore.
I think that’s the result of gamers only more recently adopting Linux. I specifically didn’t switch to Linux in 2012 because I couldn’t play the PC video games I wanted to play.
I’m glad I got one for one my friend’s birthday. Given the price of computer parts, I figured it was only a matter of time before that either went out of stock or skyrocketed in price.
I was anticipating my gym to be this way and it was dead quiet the first week of January. I was not mad. It’s actually busier now than it was in January. 🤷
I use Linux daily for work and personal tasks, but I sometimes have to resort to either a Windows VM or Windows running natively for the following:
Hardware
Gaming with the Oculus Rift S
My third-party Xbox One wireless controller adapter for the non-bluetooth models
Brook controller adapters
Software
Microsoft Office. I absolutely need the documents, spreadsheets, and presentations I work on to be interoperable with Windows users who exclusively use Microsoft Office. I am no position to ask them to change what software they use. OnlyOffice is the closest to achieving interoperability and its UI is very similar, but it still falls short. Multiple animations on 1 slide don’t carry over, none of the macros my coworkers have made seem to work, slide formatting may look different, and transformed cells don’t seem to automatically update.
Some games, such as Fortnite and CastleMinerZ either have bug-breaking issues or the publisher/anti-cheat sucks and blocks Linux. I don’t particularly care for these games, but I’m also not willing to give up game nights with lifelong friends over these. I’ll play them, suck at them, and have a good time. Then there are games such as Halo: MCC that mostly work, but then co-op campaign de-syncs.
Original Xbox and Xbox 360 development and modification tools/programs don’t work. I can’t even FTP a file over from Fedora without it being unrecognized. I obviously don’t expect any of this to change.
And I desperately miss the native Stream Deck software. StreamController’s page-changing is very slow, in general is finicky, buggy, and less intuitive.
The “why this matters” section of the article isn’t all that convincing. Sure, it’s the most NJ has fined for this matter and shows they enforce the law, but, as the article points out, it’s entirely negligible to Apple, so what’s the point? It’s so negligible, even the state isn’t going to be able to do anything significant with it.
Valve not showing the price of these is a pretty strong indicator that these are not going to be generously priced, which is why I’m not allowing myself to be excited about them. I think that they won’t be widely adopted enough to make a large impact on Linux as a result of the price.
I’d offer to look into this for a native Linux program, but I don’t have a Wii U, so debugging would be a chore.
I think that’s the result of gamers only more recently adopting Linux. I specifically didn’t switch to Linux in 2012 because I couldn’t play the PC video games I wanted to play.