DICE TeamYou're pleased, I am not.. linux user here so you know what does it mean to us. I won't buy anymore game from E.A
@OnLinux14 wrote:You're pleased, I am not.. linux user here so you know what does it mean to us. I won't buy anymore game from E.A
I'm also a Linux user - it runs on three of my four computers.
However, I use Windows for gaming and music production because it's simply a better platform for those activities - no need to mess around with compatibility layers and endless tweaking to get a game to perform acceptably, let alone at high framerates with limited loss of performance.
You have your reasons for using Linux, and they are valid ones. But that does come at a price; you can't seriously expect a studio to support multiple different operating systems that combined make up less than 2% of all installs in, say, the Steam hardware survey. If a studio does so, that's a nice thing for them to do, but implies that the studio is invested in a different ecosystem than DICE are.
If a studio is invested in a whole ecosystem of software and support services that work for them and make them profitable (however poorly we might rate them as a company), responding to the needs of customers outside their target market has a lot of potential downsides with very few upsides.
I've worked in IT long enough to know that support decisions are financial. I love Moodle, for instance, but my institution doesn't support it outside of a very few legacy online courses - they use a SAAS VLE that simplifies their support structures and reduces the financial commitment they need to make on developers. I don't show up in Teams threads complaining about it; I just use the tools that make sense because they are the ones my institution supports.
Would it really hurt to spend $20 on a Windows license and carve out a 100GB partition for Windows and BFV? Dual boot is a thing. Indeed, if you have more than one GPU you could just run Windows as a VM with PCI passthrough - I found that BFV runs well on 3c/6t on an i7-6700K -based platform, which would leave you 1c/2t to keep your your Linux host ticking over while the guest OS is running.
Both are free options, bar the Windows license (although you may well have already paid for one in the past - Win7 keys work for Win10) and you're clearly prepared to pay for software since you want to play BFV. I feel you've drawn a line in the sand here that doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
If your position is ideological, it might not be logical to complain about the consequences of your ideology.
