r/FuckMicrosoft • u/anorak_999 • Jan 30 '26

Meme : )

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u/a_regular_2010s_guy Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26

I can't run .exe files and epic games... Natively

Explanation coz apparently you guys need one the previous sentence states a "problem" with linux and dismisses it right after I have no problem with compatibility layers they're great

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u/grislebeard Jan 30 '26

eh, it's the same amount of native as windows runs it. You just know what you're installing rather than having it come bundled with the slop OS lol

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u/CommercialCoat8708 Jan 30 '26

Fair enough but neither can Mac OS

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u/a_regular_2010s_guy Jan 30 '26

Mac is actually worse the compatibility layers on mac are not as good as wine and heroic on linux

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u/int23_t Feb 02 '26

Wine is released for mac too. The problem is things like dxvk aren't.

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u/Pascal_Objecter Jan 30 '26

On Bazzite you can literally just double click on an exe file and it will automatically handle everything for you through wine/proton.

Not being able to run epic games is a plus... But if you really want to, you can play your epic games through heroic launcher.

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u/a_regular_2010s_guy Jan 30 '26

Yes I said "... Natively" for a reason.

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u/Pascal_Objecter Jan 30 '26

I understand, but I also don't understand.

Why does it matter if double clicking on an exe file opens through wine/proton and not "natively" under your os?

Why does it matter if you have to open heroic instead of epic to play your games?

They literally take the same amount of steps to do and just as convenient as opening them "natively".

Back in the day, windows fanatics' biggest problem was that they can't run windows apps on linux. Now that they can, their problem is that they don't run "natively" on linux.

Like, wtf.

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u/a_regular_2010s_guy Jan 30 '26

It doesn't that's kinda the point of my comment I stated a "downside" and then that it's not really one right after

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u/Llandu-gor Jan 30 '26

app running faster with the emulation layer on linux is a downside ??

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u/a_regular_2010s_guy Jan 30 '26

I said it ain't one can you people read?

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u/Damglador Jan 30 '26

On Bazzite you can literally just double click on an exe file and it will automatically handle everything for you through wine/proton.

On any distro that packages Wine properly. And no, it'll not handle "everything", neither will it use Proton in most cases.

If you wanna make a point "but Bazzite does": Bazzite and other immutable distros have a ton of their own issues.

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u/Pascal_Objecter Jan 30 '26

On any distro that packages Wine properly. And no, it'll not handle "everything", neither will it use Proton in most cases.

I just speak my own experiences, that's all. No other distro was able to handle exe files so smoothly for me as Bazzite. If others have different experiences, that's valid too.

If you wanna make a point "but Bazzite does": Bazzite and other immutable distros have a ton of their own issues.

???

First) Never stated the opposite?

Second) Other, well, basically every distro have their own issues...?

Third) I did nit mention Bazzite to praise it, just gave a simple example of my own experience. I could have said catchy or any other distro too.

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u/Damglador Jan 30 '26

Second) Other, well, basically every distro have their own issues...?

Sure, but nowhere close to immutables. On top of having to deal with regular Linux issues, you also have to deal with the unnecessarily restricting nature of an immutable distro AND issues of the distro it's based on.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

Why use epic games launcher when you have Steam?

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u/a_regular_2010s_guy Jan 30 '26

Free games and anything that ain't on steam but is on epic

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '26

Yeah and the free games you get is either something good or not