Untill a linux client is made Im quitting

koala9·Dec 29, 2018·2 votes·1,914 views

I have been playing league since 2014 and I love the game very much but I have fairly recently made the switch over to Linux manjaro and I can't see myself going back. Everything is great except league is the only game I play that won't run natively and punishes people for using programs like wine to get around a lack of support. I've tried everything that I can think of to get league to work for my system like installing it as a snap or installing league through wine or trying vbox. Nothing works. I understand that it is riots game to do with what they please but id rather not be stuck with shudder dota2 seeing as they have native linux support. I guess why I'm posting this is because I'm hoping enough rioters seeing us Linux people complain and make a client for us :)

16 Comments

KFCeytronDec 30, 20183 votes

1% more money isn't worth double the work.

koala9Jan 3, 20191 votes

Y'all keep saying this, but allot of people would switch if more major games like league worked so if that was the case it wouldn't be a "1%" like you're saying it would be at least 5 xD

MyrmironDec 29, 20182 votes

There should be a wine setup that works for league. Anyways, the community has been asking for a linux client since forever, but Riot doesn't give a fuck, so yeah, there will most likely never be one.

koala9Dec 29, 20181 votes

I mean on one hand I want to say I'll try anything but like I already have tried what feels like 50 setups to get this game working honestly with a game as big as this there is no reason they can't AT LEAST make a port for ubuntu.

MyrmironDec 30, 20182 votes

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I mean on one hand I want to say I'll try anything but like I already have tried what feels like 50 setups to get this game working honestly with a game as big as this there is no reason they can't AT LEAST make a port for ubuntu.

True, but sadly Riot doesn't give a shit. I'd like to be able to play League on my Debian laptop as well, but Riot doesn't care. I know I got it running some patches ago through wine, would be surprised if it doesn't work at all anymore. Apparently some people got it running on their systems: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=36323

FioraWillCarryDec 30, 20181 votes

You've obviously never written a line of code in your life. And no, Excel macros don't count.

MyrmironDec 30, 20182 votes

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You've obviously never written a line of code in your life. And no, Excel macros don't count.

And the reason for you attacking me is??? Yeah I never programmed a big enterprise tier project, but I did write several small programms as a hobby and for university in C, C++, C#, Java, SQL and Javascript on iMacs, Windows PCs and several Linux Distros.

FioraWillCarryDec 30, 20181 votes

You don't just take a large engine like the League of Legends 3D engine and make it work on Linux. Millions of casual computer users use either Windows or macOS. How many people casually use Linux as their OS? Like 53 people?

Would you paint the entire Empire State Building in America, inside and out with a tooth brush if suddenly only 3 out of 5000 people didn't like the way it looked painted using any other method?

Before you accuse Riot of not giving a fuck, you should actually do some research so you have some idea of what you're talking about. Or at the very least, ask a question before you throw barbs like that.

MyrmironDec 30, 20181 votes

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You don't just take a large engine like the League of Legends engine and make it work on Linux. Millions of casual computer users use either Windows or macOS. How many people casually use Linux as their OS? Like 53 people?

Would you paint the entire Empire State Building in America, inside and out with a tooth brush if suddenly only 3 out of 5000 people didn't like the way it looked painted using any other method?

Before you accuse Riot of not giving a fuck, you should actually do some research so you have some idea of what you're talking about. Or at the very least, ask a question before you throw barbs like that.

Yeah, they don't give a fuck about the Linux users out there. You got any evidence to the contrary? Because in my opinion, if they gave a fuck there'd be a Linux Client out by now.

DrCyanideDec 30, 20181 votes

The client is the easier part for Riot to get working, as they rebuilt it based on web standard languages. The game is the part where Riot says "no thank you". I believe some Rioters have mentioned that going to OpenGL is the pain point for any sort of Linux version (as well as the age old "which distro do you support?"), but I could be remembering that.

Steam for Linux primarily exists because Steam OS exists, and Steam OS exists because Steam was not liking the direction Microsoft was taking Windows and they needed a fallback strategy in place if things got really bad.

MyrmironDec 30, 20182 votes

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The client is the easier part for Riot to get working, as they rebuilt it based on web standard languages. The game is the part where Riot says "no thank you". I believe some Rioters have mentioned that going to OpenGL is the pain point for any sort of Linux version (as well as the age old "which distro do you support?"), but I could be remembering that.

Steam for Linux primarily exists because Steam OS exists, and Steam OS exists because Steam was not liking the direction Microsoft was taking Windows and they needed a fallback strategy in place if things got really bad.

Yet they got it running on OSX which to my knowledge doesn't support DirectX so they most likely already have a League version that's running on OpenGL, Mantle or Vulkan and doesn't require Windows system calls.

DrCyanideDec 30, 20182 votes

Apple announced they've deprecated OpenGL, so Riot will have to port the Mac version of the game to Metal - which as I understand it is Apple's current proprietary graphics library. I'm not sure if Apple was running a standard version of OpenGL in the first place or if they made their own tweeks that would make it non-compatible with Linux, or if they've had a proprietary graphics library for long enough that they've used that for the Mac version since the beginning.

koala9Jan 3, 20191 votes

Thank you for clarifying I appreciate that! ^_^

FioraWillCarryDec 30, 20181 votes

Use a real OS bro.

koala9Jan 3, 20191 votes

I do xD

KFCeytronJan 3, 20191 votes

According to Steam charts (a pretty reasonable perspective on the kind of rig people are generally using for gaming), Windows is at 95.86%, OSX is at 3.31%, and Linux is at 0.82%. Supporting LoL for Mac is already basically charity.