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Well, shit. Unfortunate news from the Vinegar Discord: Roblox will block Wine in future releases.

This is going to end my "Steam Deck as a primary desktop PC for my kid" experiment.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What if I don't want to use windows? What if I find windows to be buggy and unstable and all around just unpleasant to use? What if I don't want to have to reboot my PC or my deck every time I get the slightest urge to play shitty simulators or one of the millions of backrooms games?

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Some applications just require Windows. You have to acknowledge that if you're going to use a non-Windows device.

I have the same discussion with my wife every time some website doesn't work. "Are you using a real browser or are you in Safari?"

[–] zedekiah04@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

This is going to end my “Steam Deck as a primary desktop PC for my kid” experiment.

dual booting windows is always an option...

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you even block wine? It's a compatibility layer? Even if you block it someone will just add a fix to get around it eventually won't they?

[–] NeryK@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I do not know, but the Vinegar people give it straight:

Also last time around Wine support was broken for like 6 months and no one found a workaround. It was Roblox devs who re-enabled it later.

[–] wolfruff@pawb.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And nothing of value was lost

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

It's an extremely popular platform for kids, and I think anything that will get kids trying Linux instead of windows is something we should want working.