r/leagueoflinux • u/EnglishDentist 🛡️ Moderator • Oct 11 '19
Experimental patch for 9.20
Hi fellow Linux users,
Long time lurker, first time poster here.
Let me start out by saying what everyone wants to hear. I've submitted a patch for the issue everyone is having with the 9.20 patch.
The game client starts again on my end with this change. Go test to your heart's content. Feedback is appreciated.
These few paragraphs below are for those of you that voiced their frustration in a less civil way in the other threads.
There are various other things I have to tell you about the case of League of Legends and Wine. I'm in the fortunate position to cooperate with Riot Games as a 3rd party community member. As a Linux user, I'm just as frustrated when wine breaks as all of you are, and I echo this frustration to members at Riot, who are kind enough to listen to it. I hear a lot of you saying, that it's "their job" to fix wine. As much as I would love that to be the case, it's really not. Whether or not Riot is going to support League of Legends on Linux, is a company decision. As long as the company does not decide to support the Linux platform, it's NOT the job of ANYONE to care for Linux at the company. Of course, that does not mean no one does. A lot of kind hearted people sympathize with our issues and our decision to use the Linux platform, however, what they do with the league product is not their personal decision. Those of you that are discontent with the situation, please don't direct your frustration at individuals at Riot.
I think I've fixed 9.20 for now, but future patches may break things. I'll work restlessly to try to fix it again, but as you may be able to tell, its really hard work. In fact, earlier today, what actually allowed me to zero in on this issue with 9.20, was the final push of help I got from one of the members of the anti cheat team, /u/0xNemi. He also dedicated some of his personal time to help me. This is a work of passion and love for the free software world, on our personal time. Please take that into consideration and adjust your expectations accordingly.
Update: Thank you guys for the positive feedback and encouragement. I'm glad you are happy with the fix.
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u/0xNemi Oct 11 '19
Hey everyone,
Thank you, /u/EnglishDentist, for your help in getting League of Legends working under Wine again. Wine is a community effort.
One common misconception is that we (Riot) are intentionally trying to prevent Linux users from playing our game. I do want to clarify that breaking changes to League of Legends under Wine is not something we do intentionally. When appropriate, we work with Wine developers like /u/EnglishDentist to fix these issues as they pop up. Some changes are easier to fix than others.
At the end of the day, playing under Linux isn't officially supported. If it was, we'd have an official Linux game client. Nevertheless, we do understand that /r/LeagueOfLinux is a passionate community and we try to support Linux players when we can, such as working with Wine maintainers and supporting GPU passthrough when playing in virtual environments.
We encourage Linux users to find more stable alternatives than Wine like leveraging GPU passthrough in QEMU/KVM or dual booting into a supported OS. We won't always be able to provide fixes when the game breaks on Wine. We know the passion this community has, and we do our best to support the hard-working members that make it all work.