Linux players

[erter]

Are there any linux players around. Since CoH 2 doesnt support cross platform mulitplayer I am looking for some linux players that want to play with me and teach me some tips and tricks. My time zone is CET and I often play between 5 and 6 PM CET and 7 and 8 PM CET. Please take in to consideration if you can play at those times. If you can please post a comment below and send me a friend request.

[Sir Moisty Capybara]

try proton, maybe it will click.

But fat chances tbh.

[erter]

Who is proton? A linux player?

[Sir Moisty Capybara]

Originally posted by erter:

Who is proton? A linux player?

Nah, it's new feature for integrating wine with Steam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb9RupIkhQ8

[Setanta]

I am able to occasionally on weekends.

[Arctu]

COH2 works well with Proton pretty much out of the box. If you are using Linux and never heard of Proton, you really need to check it out. A lot of Windows games will just work right away while others need some tinkering (like installing a new .NET runtime), but you will get most of your games to run on Linux with very little performance loss.

Valve has really done a lot for the Linux gaming community with Proton.

[AtlasRedux]

Originally posted by PotatoScav:

I know , i know , linux is free ,

But come on .

Windows 10 is still free too. You can use the unregistered version as long as you want.
And if you want, you can actually activate Windows 10 Pro for free and get a legit serial/registered online version, if you bother meddling a bit in the gray area. Microsoft's free upgrade registering still works, even if you actually don't upgrade ...

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Originally posted by PotatoScav:

People use windows microsoft word on linux system .

If you're not using Libre Office you're too clueless to be indicative of informed OS choice.

Originally posted by PotatoScav:

People use 3rd party software so they can play windows game on linux system .

Except for the increasingly large number of games that can run on Linux natively.

Originally posted by PotatoScav:

Linux should stay at the server room and never come out .

Sounds like you have no idea just how much performance advantage linux has over Windows (any flavor) for software that was compiled to run on either.

Originally posted by PotatoScav:

Buy a window system already please .

Enjoy your spyware.

Win7 is my last MS OS. Enough awesome stuff (including productivity software) on Linux to switch for gaming setup now.

Heil Penguin!

[AtlasRedux]

Originally posted by Sheepify:

]Enjoy your spyware.

Literally first option when you install Windows 10 is to disable all telemetry data.
Though it wasn't that in the first releases (which yes, was inexcusable), it is now.
DirectX 12 also is backwards compatible with its drastic improvements with all hardware down to 8.0, and outperforms Vulkan, Mantle and the atrocious OpenGL by far.

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Originally posted by AtlasRedux:

Literally first option when you install Windows 10 is to disable all telemetry data.

Spoiler alert - it does not, at least based on what I read about it.

Originally posted by AtlasRedux:

DirectX 12 also is backwards compatible with its drastic improvements with all hardware down to 8.0, and outperforms Vulkan, Mantle and the atrocious OpenGL by far.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-heart-linux/

Also, OpenGL slower? *Citation needed

Because, as an example, this[growtechy.com] is just one of the many articles I've seen that state otherwise.

[Sir Moisty Capybara]

Originally posted by AtlasRedux:

Originally posted by Sheepify:

]Enjoy your spyware.

Literally first option when you install Windows 10 is to disable all telemetry data.
Though it wasn't that in the first releases (which yes, was inexcusable), it is now.
DirectX 12 also is backwards compatible with its drastic improvements with all hardware down to 8.0, and outperforms Vulkan, Mantle and the atrocious OpenGL by far.

1) Like anyone cares about CoH2 running 10% faster on W10 if even that's true
2) Not, even Microsoft says that some data will be always sended to them.

[AtlasRedux]

Originally posted by Sheepify:

Originally posted by AtlasRedux:

Literally first option when you install Windows 10 is to disable all telemetry data.

Spoiler alert - it does not, at least based on what I read about it.

Originally posted by AtlasRedux:

DirectX 12 also is backwards compatible with its drastic improvements with all hardware down to 8.0, and outperforms Vulkan, Mantle and the atrocious OpenGL by far.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-heart-linux/

Also, OpenGL slower? *Citation needed

Because, as an example, this[growtechy.com] is just one of the many articles I've seen that state otherwise.

OpenGL does not even support any modern features, like raytracing. It has to emulate half of everything and is basically useless.

[AtlasRedux]

Originally posted by RageEpileptic:

1) Like anyone cares about CoH2 running 10% faster on W10 if even that's true
2) Not, even Microsoft says that some data will be always sended to them.

We know perfectly what type of data is sent or not. You are aware that you can monitor what is being sent from your PC?

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Originally posted by RageEpileptic:

1) Like anyone cares about CoH2 running 10% faster on W10 if even that's true

The only way games run better on DirectX than OpenGL if they are coded to use some form of VM layer for the latter, instead of having native support.

Originally posted by AtlasRedux:

OpenGL does not even support any modern features, like raytracing. It has to emulate half of everything and is basically useless.

"Modern." Ray Tracing was added to DirectX less than 3 years ago...

As for the remainder of your comment... your bias is damn clear.

[Sir Moisty Capybara]

Originally posted by AtlasRedux:

Originally posted by RageEpileptic:

1) Like anyone cares about CoH2 running 10% faster on W10 if even that's true
2) Not, even Microsoft says that some data will be always sended to them.

We know perfectly what type of data is sent or not. You are aware that you can monitor what is being sent from your PC?

1) Who is we?
2) You can even cut of yourself out of internet if so inclined, but Windows 10 tries everything to make sure, that process of cutting data sending is unpleasant. Not mentioning having to create Microsoft Account when installation of Windows is finished (yea, you say "but you could switch offline). So there is that.

Also what's your problem? Someone just want to use Linux because he prefers it over Microsoft. Neverminding that CoH2 doesn't even care if your GPU or Shader Library is modern as it is game FROM 2013 that still have issues with using 64 bits.

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Originally posted by RageEpileptic:

1) Who is we?

Nobody, because last I checked a bunch of the telemetry data Win10 sends out is generated and encrypted in a way that nobody from the outside can identify.