How do you feel about it that Microsoft decided to make a new game instead of it being an update for MSFS 2020? Do you think you will buy it or just stick with the 2020 version?

  • Macpoedel@discuss.tchncs.de
    7·
    1 year ago

    I’ll probably get 2024 at some point, but maybe not for the right reasons. I bought MSFS 2020 from the MS Store because I thought it would upgrade in the background but it doesn’t, the updater is still a mess. Now I want to move my pc to Linux and my MS Store version of MSFS is about the only game/software I have that won’t work with Linux/Proton/Wine, that I care about. So I’ve been looking to get Steam version of 2020 in a sale, even though it looks like that won’t be a seamless experience either, it at least has a chance. With 2024 coming out and sales never going quite low, I’ll wait for 2024 instead and see how it’ll run on Proton. Or I’ll get X-Plane 12 because that has a native Linux build.

      • Macpoedel@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        1 year ago

        It currently has Silver status on ProtonDB, I know it should work, but most reports mention some tinkering. The latest reporter says their rudder pedals don’t work (kind of a dealbreaker for me). That’s what I meant by not as seamless, it might work for you but you don’t have the same hardware as me.

      • BenNoodling@lemmy.ca
        0·
        1 year ago

        Can you elaborate how? Wine? VirtualBox? What did you need to install if anything to make it work? Which distro are you on?

        • Quark@startrek.websiteOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          I am on Fedora 38, it just works on Steam with Proton Experimental. Just make sure to use directx11.