This question was inspired by my hatred of Temporal Anti-Aliasing which, in many games nowadays, is poorly used as a performance bandaid. On lower resolutions it will smudge and blur the image and certain bad cases of TAA will cause visible ghosting.
Yet in spite of all this, certain games won’t let you turn it off or have hair/fur/foliage look like dogshit without it so sometimes I still use it.
windows. literally the only thing i use it for is valorant. the second they let us play valorant on linux or mac, i’m gone
(inb4 chinese rootkit boogeyman, i don’t care)
One major issue with Linux gaming is anti cheat that actually secures the client. Things like eac or vac have to cripple their client side protections on Linux because they can’t put in a kernel level module that can’t be replaced by anyone else. On Windows those kernel level modules are signed by Microsoft which then makes it extremely tough to break on that level.
This is likely a reason why you won’t see valorant on Linux.
I absolutely love both MacOS and Linux, for different reasons of course but both are awesome IMO. But Windows just sucks, the only reason I still have it is because I’ve been unable to fix some controller issues with cloud gaming on Linux, and I’m completely broke (and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future) so can’t buy a Mac.
Fuck.
completely with you brother 🤝 i just have the cheapest m1 air which is plenty powerful for my work, study and creative stuff. pretty useless for gaming though except minecraft lol. i pray for valorant