• sylver_dragon@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Did the same. The writing has been on the wall for a long time, Microsoft’s anti-user behavior is only set to get worse. I made the jump to Linux (Arch) and things have been reasonably smooth. I did have a few issues with Enshrouded, but was able to get past those with Proton-GE. The only issue I haven’t worked around yet is Roblox with the kids. But, I may just have to pick up a cheap tablet for that.

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      5 months ago

      Does emulating via waydroid not work for android games? I don’t really do android games so not sure how well waydroid performs for that type of stuff - but it seems okay for a few android apps i’ve tried.

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        5 months ago

        The last time I tried that getting google play services working was a long, annoying process and did not work. I don’t expect google to make any of that easy for us.

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          5 months ago

          fair point, i’m very used to just using f-droid, aurora, or sideloading apks from dubious places, for my phone and tablet, that i completely forget how much android stuff “needs” google services.

          I got netflix running without google play, i think installed from aurora store. It needed a script to install widevide DRM that seemed to work.

          But I can imagine things like games being more of a pain especially with online.

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        5 months ago

        That is a possibility. To be honest, I haven’t tried very hard yet. I’m currently working on spinning up a Win10 VM in KVM and I’ll see how that works. And Android emulator is another good idea, I’ll have to give that a go.