My ultimate plan was, seeing how great support was for Windows I had assumed the company cared about everyone, Windows, Linux and MacOS. So once I moved to Linux, I planned to buy Omega time for the next few years. However, with all the issues I’ve read about with the Eve Launcher, and just with the problems that I’ve had, if CCP won’t support Linux, I can’t buy a broken product.
Eve Online installs perfectly fine in Heroic Launcher and runs using ge-proton-latest, and on first install the Eve Launcher works, I can get in and play the game. I was able to exit the game but kept the launcher open, and was able to get back into the game. Once I close that Eve Launcher, the Eve Launcher tries to run an update the next time it’s opened and that’s when it breaks. Whatever the update in the Eve Launcher is trying to do on Linux, it is breaking the ability to get back into Eve Online.
It was nice being able to play the two times I did today. I have a lot of anxiety issues, and being able to log in with my friend and play Eve Online helps me. Since Windows 10 support has ended, my computer doesn’t have TPM 2.0, and so I cannot even install windows 11. But even if I wanted to install win11, I certainly won’t go back. My machine has not run this great in a very long time.
Linux now has a 5% market share. At what point does CCP go back to supporting Linux? Windows users are jumping ship whether you want to believe that or not, they are. I’ve been around since MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.11 and I just won’t go back to using anything new they put out. I personally want to use a free system like Linux, and just have the ability to play my games without having to jump through hoops all day just for it to break again.
Well, if at any point CCP does decide to support Linux again, I really do want to buy Omega time so I can properly play the game with all my skills available to me.
70% of the world uses Windows. They aren’t going to bend over backwards for a minority of Linux users. Plus I thought Linux users were supposed to be smart enough to figure it out themselves…
Another naive dope who fell for the Linux Kool-Aid. If your computer doesn’t support TPM 2.0, neither on the board nor the CPU, frankly your ■■■■ is too old to be attached to the internet.
Linux is absolutely great for some things. Servers, Arduino toys, the OS in modern cars, private network phones/radios, PC’s for old people who just need Facebook and to watch Youtube cat videos.
Alternative is Lutris on any Linux distro that can support EVE
EVE Uni has a helpful guide for install. Works on SteamOS and Bazzite (Fedora Linux Distro). [I use Bazzite with Lutris Eve Launcher installed via E-UNI instructions]
I imagine EVE works on CachyOS (Arch Distro)
Enable the virtual/simulated DX option in launcher if on Bazzite OS to solve any render/shader issues.
They say 100% of statistics are made up, but I’m increasingly convinced 99.999% of Linux users are socialist commie wannabes sticking it to “the man” by living in mom’s basement to avoid working, thus they need a “free” OS that can run on the 20 year old computer they dug out of the nearby school’s dumpster. The other .001% legitimately like using Linux.
First @QuakeGod is a Linux OS troll, you won’t hear me coming in here and pissing on Windows OS. You just show your ignorance with every post you make against Linux OS and here I thought you were smarter than this. I am not asking for your nonproductive posts to be hidden, you dropped your trousers, I want people to see what you are. If you are not here to help, stay out of my way.
Now that’s is out of the way, @Arkena007 to the best of my knowledge, back when FC was CCP, they never did “support Linux OS”. Steam only supports the Proton and not the game itself. I am not familiar with Heroic Launcher but I don’t use Steam, Proton, or anything other apps, other than Linux OS and Wine.
The Eve Launcher has been a real PITA over the last year. I can currently run it with Linux Xubuntu and Manjaro. I install the Wine 11.0 from the repository at WineHQ on Xubuntu and it does work. There are some tweaks needed, such as winetricks corefont and DXVK. Lately Eve in Manjaro OS doesn’t work without downgrading Wine from the Manjaro repository. As you might know, Manjaro is Arch based and other repositories are not easily merged into this OS.
Note: If you are a Steam user, there is an option to make your account available without Steam. The John Rochard account was a Steam originally, all you do is log into the main Eve Online webpage and manage your account. In there when you ask it to change your password, it knows you are on Steam and sets your Steam account up with a user ID. This is just another option, as I have hard enough time going through the Eve Launcher to get the client running.
The issue I have with game companies – in general – is their statements about being “Linux OS compatible”. In reality, what they mean, is using Wine overlay to run a Windows based client. When the Wine can’t function with the Windows client/launcher the game developers simply point at Wine. The only way FC is going to support software for Linux OS, is when they write a Linux OS client for us to download. They need to stop putting it out there to mislead the public into thinking they support Linux at all.
@Power_Armor is most helpful in these matters, also read through the Linux section on this forum for more help.
That’s something I can agree with. Wine is a useful piece of software but it doesn’t get away from the underlying problem that is the over reliance on Windows and Microsoft.
Because Microsoft and Windows are the gold standard. Walk into any electronics store on the planet, buy a Windows PC, take it home, turn it on, and it just…works. If Linux was the superior product, 77% of the world’s desktops would be using it instead. Windows is easy to use, and ease of use wins every time…
Your experience must be from before Windows 11. Currently the new user experience is just broken by design with non-existant captchas, wrongly translated AI slop dialogues and needed workarounds to avoid a microsoft account.
And it will get much worse with the AI-core based Windows 12 at the end of the year.
It doesn’t let me in the game on Steam. I get to the Eve Launcher click Play and nothing. I’ve only been able to get in the actual game with Heroic Launcher.
I don’t understand the obsession that Linux users need to just “figure it out”. Once microsoft screws everyone over, hopefully more people will finally get some smarts to just stop using windows. I’d rather use an operating system that lets me have full control over my system. I used windows since windows 95, all the way to window 10. I can’t run windows 11, nor do I want to. I can’t afford a new PC, I’m not a money tree, I live paycheck to paycheck.
What does real life politics have to do with Eve Online? I was always taught if you’ve got nothing nice to say, don’t say anything…
