Goodbye Roblox on Steam Deck - eviltoast

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.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    331·
    9 months ago

    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.worksOPEnglish
      281·
      9 months 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.

        • mihnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10·
          9 months ago

          Because it is. They are telling paying customers to get stuffed. I was planning on putting Linux on my daughter’s PC but with this she will never let me. Only computer left in the house with Windows on it. :(

          • NeryK@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
            8·
            9 months ago

            Just in case there is any misconception: this particular post does not emanate from anyone at Roblox. This is the Vinegar team closing shop and giving context. Vinegar was an open source project which made it easy to run Roblox on Linux.

            Roblox Corporation is the one telling a (likely very small) portion of their paying userbase to fuck off.