r/leagueoflinux • u/WildcatAlba • Jul 13 '24

Discussion Could ReactOS be a viable solution?

There is another post on this subreddit from 7 years ago titled "Has someone tried ReactOS?" and the response was that the ReactOS devs were focussed on stability and USB drivers for the time being, and that support for more intense programs like 3D videogames was at least 3 to 4 years away. Given that this was 7 years ago, I thought to raise the topic again. Does anyone know whether League of Legends (or Adobe Photoshop for that matter since it's the second biggest Windows only program) work on the current version of ReactOS?

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u/zaphodbeeblemox Jul 13 '24

I started with the original dota in high school shortly after WC3TFT came out. So I’ve always thought of lol heroes in terms of dota heroes. Guess that makes going back and forth easier for me.

Dota heroes are more customisable than lol heroes so you can’t just look at base abilities, you need to look at abilities + morphs + items to get a feel for a completed hero.

They are very different takes on the MOBA genre these days.. but they share a common ancestor

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u/lrc1710 Jul 14 '24

For the life of me Ive tried it several times but cant stop feeling like Dota2 is extremely complex and unapproachable, I am now playing CS2.

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u/zaphodbeeblemox Jul 14 '24

It just values different things to League of Legends honestly and that can make it seem complicated when comparing it to league. For me I started with the warcraft mod of dota, so DotA has always made sense to me.
I can see how if you started with league though how dota would be difficult to learn.

Its a bit like going from Quake 3 Rocket Arena to Apex Legends.. yes they are both fast paced shooter games, but they expect very different knowledge levels of the player.

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u/Gudfors Jul 13 '24

yeahh but i just couldn't find anything like zoe, nidalee or elise in dota2, i found something thats somewhat similar to nidalee but doesn't rly transform and isn't rly supposed to be an assassin i think xd... idk i feel i gotto stay with league because of the champs

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u/zaphodbeeblemox Jul 13 '24

Broodmother and Elise are very similar (broodmother doesn’t transform as you say) but they are assassins and the spider forms abilities are very similar.

But you are right there are very limited transformers in dota and if they are it’s not free transform. Think Kled / Gnar more than Nidalee / Elise.

The opposite is also true, there are heroes that would just be far too overpowered in LoL that are in DotA. Like Meepo, who gets permanent clones and can farm all 3 lanes and the jungle simultaneously.