LoL Linux Client

BladeSlasher·3/17/2016, 10:45:20 AM·2 votes·787 views

Hello everyone. I'm a dual boot user running Windows 10 Enterprise x64 and Kali Linux 2 x64. I have found that this FREE operating system is really nice and can do anything windows can do, sometimes better. There's just ONE thing it can't do.. RUN LEAGUE. I searched google for a Linux client. Turns out there's a MAC client, a WINDOWS client, but NO LINUX client. That's a shocker to me because there are more Linux (ubuntu, kali, mint, ...) users combined than MAC users. Additionally the OS is FREE so we can expect more users to be coming on board IF there was better game support. I wondered WHY a client for Linux was so hard and then I read this on the forums archive:

"There's also the fact that Adobe dropped support for AIR on Linux in 2009. Riot would have to develop a non-AIR version of the PvP.net client (patcher, store, queue, runes, etc; everything except the actual match). So IF we see that happen, then a Linux client might not be too far behind."

Now that's interesting, because the new client isn't AIR based anymore. Riot re-wrote the new client and there's a new ALPHA client coming out that doesn't rely on ADOBE. It's just a matter of porting the game to a .deb package with all the dependencies bundled in it. Once the installer for Linux is coded, the game files (sound, graphics, animations) are the same and can be downloaded as usual. The new client might be able to run here because nVIDIA and AMD have Linux drivers.

So I'm here just starting a PLEA to the great RIOT Gods (aka the people that do the programming and design) and the makers of League...

I hate having to reboot just to play League :(

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