Seems ridiculous, but when their biggest rival can’t be bothered to support Linux… you see why they might announce something like this.
unleaded 2 hours ago |
Who's their biggest rival? Roblox doesn't support Linux either.
vablings 2 hours ago |
They don't officially support Linux, but they allow the community to continue playing using Sober. Honestly it's probably better that way
Throudin 2 hours ago |
I'd assume Fortnite Creative
jkahrs595 2 hours ago |
Let me rephrase, it doesn’t actively oppose Linux like Fortnite does. Roblox absolutely can run on Linux, even though it’s not officially supported.
ekianjo an hour ago |
Use Sober
thenewnewguy 21 minutes ago |
Doesn't roblox use an anticheat that prevents the game client from running on linux? I thought nowadays the way to "run roblox on linux" involved using an android emulator.
a2128 36 minutes ago |
Roblox has a long history of not supporting Linux, and the game was rendered unplayable for many years. In 2022 it became possible following some Wine patches, but then they began to implement a kernel-level anticheat. Roblox initially committed to keeping Wine working but suddenly went back on that and blocked it without notice. Today, the last remaining way is through running the Android version of the game through an Android container or emulator. The TFA is about stopping this exact method of running the game though...
jordand an hour ago |
Makes sense for them to support this given their scale. I wouldn't be surprised if GrapheneOS secures another big Android OEM vendor (after Motorola Mobility) and the user base of the OS quickly grows from its current 400k+ to millions.
subscribed an hour ago |
Great news! I never had problems running Roblox on my GOS, but it's nice to to see the explicit, official support.
Snowball effect (for both sides, software publishers and OS vendors).