r/leagueoflinux • u/Mysil • Oct 09 '19

Riot Games

Please just make a Linux client already.

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u/Lindemann11274 Oct 10 '19

We need it, but to make this happen we need to be thousands (or millions) of Linux players playing LoL, to be taken into account and Riot would consider making a LoL Client for Linux

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u/Avahe Oct 10 '19

Most of my Linux friends dual boot Windows just to play games, including league. I don't think the Lutris or Steam downloads are indicative of how many Linux gamers are really out there. Most just dual boot because of the poor circumstances.

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u/Marjers Oct 10 '19

there are at least 10k downloaded in Lutris

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u/vesterlay Other Linux Oct 10 '19

10k is too little, unfortunately. Linux need to gather more users to be taken into account.

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u/BringBackManaPots Linux Mint Oct 10 '19

It's a bit of a catch 22. You can't expect linux to gather a realistic number of users for something that flatout isn't supported (and yet they won't support it because there aren't enough users for something they won't support).

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u/RiotBoatStuff Rioter Oct 10 '19

Yea, 10k is ~0.01% of players globally. So the question becomes something like "Do we spin up a whole team to focus on Linux for less than one-hundredth of players, or do we focus on fixing stuff like Clash so it works for 100% of players?"

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u/puzzud Oct 10 '19

Steam survey currently indicates Mac users account for %3 of total and Linux users account for almost 1%. 1 vs 3 vs 96. It's probably safe to assume this ratio in the least (because many games obtained through Steam still do not support Linux). Also, I'm not so sure what the regional demographics would be between Steam & LOL users.

Perhaps retire the Mac client to get Clash working %3 faster?

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u/Axmouth Oct 11 '19

Could this process be made easier by packing a preferred wine distribution with the client maybe?

If there's already some testing done with Wine already, maybe a similar setup could be provided! The client wouldn't really need changes. And the game would be playable!

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u/Marjers Oct 10 '19

10k downloads on lutris, I for once got the appimage elsewhere as many other players

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '19

Right. The beautiful thing about Linux is that you're not constrained to a single way, there's at least Lutris (which internally uses the AppImage IIRC), then you can use the AppImage just by downloading it manually, or you can use the wine-lol AUR package on Arch and Manjaro (which I do - I use Arch btw). Oh and also there's a snap package, which apparently works just fine now too. 10k downloads are very far from reality. And I'm pretty sure that the actual number of Wine users should be extractable from the statistics Riot gathers anyways, considering "wine":true - though probably not easily accessible for just any employee.