Untill a linux client is made Im quitting

koala9·12/29/2018, 10:28:31 AM·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

KFCeytron12/30/2018, 12:41:40 AM3 votes

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

Myrmiron12/29/2018, 11:00:03 AM2 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.

DrCyanide12/30/2018, 12:51:02 AM1 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.

FioraWillCarry12/30/2018, 1:06:35 AM1 votes

Use a real OS bro.

KFCeytron1/3/2019, 8:23:09 AM1 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.