i know its been said a lot but Linux and mac support would be amazing. mac os is the second leading OS and I’m surprised there hasn’t been a client made already for mac. and with Linux many of us would love to see it.
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You can use emulators. Linux is not directly made for gaming so no one bothers adding support for gaming clients.
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And it will never be until the biggest games in the world start to support it.
Linux and MacOS have evolved over the years to the point that they are main choice for developers, unless they have to use windows only software.
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You are absolutely right! Some time ago I also changed to linux but got bored because of all these emulators that are not wokring. I don’t know the reason why they do not add support for linux based os systems. But still most of the players are using windows.
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no idea what you’re talking about, pretty much all emulators work perfectly on linux and often even better than windows. 99.9% of windows games run either out of the box or with tweaking (less tweaking than is necessary on windows, especially with older titles) with exceptions being stuff like fivem and big corpos disallowing linux bc of their shitty KLACs.
what is it with the backwards ass attitude with linux on this forum? most people i see talking about this sound like they haven’t used it in 5+ years or something.
It’s called being realistic. No one is arguing that there shouldn’t be support but the viability of that support and likelihood it happening. Which is extremely low based on how the current FiveM AC works and the teams limited bandwidth to support another platform that has an extremely small player base compared to Windows.
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if you’re going to keep harping on the small userbase thing, which everyone here already knows, by all means. my whole point is that this userbase you keep downplaying is growing exponentially, especially as of a few years ago, and it would be a good thing to keep in mind for the future. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Linux-Above-3P-Oct-2025 case in point, steam’s overall linux userbase passes 3% overall for the first time in steam’s entire history and shows no signs of slowing down, as windows continues to shit itself and become more and more nonviable and user unfriendly.
i’m not demanding anything of the devs, and if it’s currently nonviable with the way fivem is built, so be it. but this continued “linux is only used by basement dwelling neckbeards and you can’t game on it” subtext that seems to be uniquely common on this forum is weird and objectively completely incorrect to say the least. just say it’s currently not technologically viable and move on, it’s the misinformation i have a problem with. this continued insistence that linux is this tiny userbase is going to look more and more foolish in the coming years as linux’s overall userbase continues to grow and become even more undeniably significant than it already is especially in the gaming space, and the fact that windows games run better through wine/proton
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i would encourage you to look back into this, as nowadays pretty much all emulators have native linux versions. even for emulators that don’t yet, such as xenia canary (as of literally a few days ago there is a new fork called xenia edge, which focuses on linux and vulkan support specifically while also having a linux native ui, and is already booting/playable with most of the 360’s library) i have personally played the windows version extensively through proton with little to no issues that i wouldn’t already encounter on windows. emulators literally run better on linux and again, by september 2023 when this post was made this was kind of already the case, so im not sure where you got confused.
No one has said this. Quotes are to quote things someone actually said. You also say the user base shouldn’t be ignored because it’s not small and you also cite it’s only 3% which is mostly steam deck users and not a viable stat to say people are using Linux PCs for everyday activities.
I still think you are overestimating the level of involvement an everyday user will put up with. I work and support people like this all day. They have absolutely no desire to move to another operating system and even less desire to understand what an emulator is or what branch they need to be on to have the latest version. They don’t want to read walkthroughs and forum posts to troubleshoot why something might not be working.
well this aged poorly (not that i blame you, but by 2023 this was already changing thanks to proton) since 99.9% of games now run either out of the box or with tweaks (usually less than windows, especially for old titles) with the only notable exceptions being games with KLAC (kernel level anticheat) that specifically disallow linux like AAA shit or fivem. there quite literally isn’t a single game out of my 1500+ game steam library that hasn’t run with little to no issues. even steam’s steam deck verified badge can’t keep up with wine/proton’s development, as there are MANY games that sitll have the unsupported tag or that are silver/bronze or lower on protondb that run fine on the latest versions of wine/proton. i was just playing dead rising 3 which is supposedly unsupported and it ran flawlessly and better than windows out of the box.
so this notion is definitely not longer accurate, and even by 2023 it was questionable.
The point is that the games are not designed with linux in mind.
The fact that they run is due to most of those games being made in either unreal or unity engines or some sort of commerical engine, and not because of some effort to make them run on it.
But yes, kernel level ac is the main problem. And already has been said by NTA.
Adhesive isn’t a kernel level AC to my knowledge. It just uses functionality specific to windows to work which is not easily to migrate to Linux.