Flufska
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| 04 Oct 2015 12:10 AM |
Hello everybody, I am Flufska, a long time ROBLOX player who has recently switched to the Ubuntu OS, a Linux distribution. For any of you who don't know what Linux is, here's a small introduction; Linux is a free and open source operating system maintained by programmers all over the world. It's much more popular than you'd think, and for good reasons. Heck, even Microsoft has thrown money at a newer Linux distribution.
This operating system works much like a Microsoft or Apple desktop, though with one problem... no ROBLOX! But fear not, folks, for today I want to convince ROBLOX's developers to try something different.
For a start, Linux is home to a large amount of developers. That means, you guessed it, they probably know LUA. And what's the one thing ROBLOX thrives on these days? Developers who are experienced in LUA. If you ask me, I think giving these people the chance to put their skills to work for something amazing and creative would be a great decision and success on your part. More developers, more games, more people spending money, profit.
There are also many players, such as me, who have played for a long time but decided to switch to a Linux distribution for whatever reason it may be. Many of these players would definitely have kept playing if Linux had been supported at their time of departure. This, again, means well for you. More players, more people potentially spending money, profit.
Too long? That's okay. In a shell, I think the developers down at ROBLOX should start thinking about potential Linux players and how they could affect the community and the game in a positive way. |
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| 04 Oct 2015 12:49 AM |
SUPPORT :D
we need this money money MONEH |
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Flufska
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OneShot17
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| 04 Oct 2015 11:27 AM |
support.
The code wouldn't be very different from the OS X code since they're both Unix-based, so this is an easy release. |
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| 04 Oct 2015 11:42 AM |
Linux is dead and has an extremely inferior market share. Windows is around 53% while Mac is around 20%. Linux's market share is below 0.5%. There is no real reason to add Roblox support to Linux when not that many people use it.
These stats are accurate as of August 2015. |
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| 04 Oct 2015 11:51 AM |
"linux is dead" Not true, Linux is growing in popularity. The reason why linux has such a small market share is it usually doesn't count free downloads, because usually linux is free. Support.
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| 04 Oct 2015 11:52 AM |
Market share absolutely counts free downloads. However, Linux is not growing. The market share has stayed relatively the same for years.
Linux is only used for backend systems. Clients do not use Linux. Linux lacks popularity and will most likely not be supported by Roblox in the future. |
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Flufska
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| 04 Oct 2015 05:08 PM |
| You do see that I said Linux is free and open source, right? Most software made for and supported by Linux is free. Not nearly as much money is put into Linux than Microsoft and Apple systems. You don't buy a computer with Linux built in, you download it. There's also the fact Linux is not one system but many different distributions. You'd have to find stats for every single distribution to get a general number. |
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| 04 Oct 2015 05:10 PM |
| What are you trying to say? |
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Flufska
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| 04 Oct 2015 05:18 PM |
I'm trying to say there is no "Linux market share" because Linux is so many different things unlike Microsoft and Apple which are full corporations.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHIkw4JZAjI |
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| 04 Oct 2015 05:18 PM |
Shedletsky said there is a Linux port 90% done a while back, although I don't know what happened to that. Linux is also in the Platform list in their source code. However, that list also has things like AndroidTV and DOS on it, so I wouldn't expect much from it.
Besides market share, there is also the fact that game development on Linux is very very difficult. Different distros use their sound and video drivers differently, and you have to make it compatible on all distros. That is an extremely hard thing to do and debugging it is a nightmare. This is the reason why most games don't have Linux ports - it's way too hard since it's an open source operating system. |
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Flufska
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| 04 Oct 2015 05:21 PM |
You WERE able to use Wine (A program for Linux which emulates Windows programs) to run ROBLOX until they banned 3rd party software due to cheat engine abuse.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHIkw4JZAjI |
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| 04 Oct 2015 05:22 PM |
"which emulates Windows programs"
That's the key phrase. Wine may be a Linux distro but it was specifically made to support Windows programs. |
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| 04 Oct 2015 05:24 PM |
I'll wait a couple years on Linux
"open source"
yea, open source. Its still annoying to code on it. Developing on windows is easier.
#code print ("Shots fired, ready for the war!") -- Currently working on Gui's |
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Flufska
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| 04 Oct 2015 05:32 PM |
A thing with Linux being open source, free and with so many experienced programmers is that people with different distributions can contribute to porting a program themselves. Once the basic Linux/buntu version is made, people can work together to program it for THEIR distro. ROBLOX's developers won't have to do much of the work for each individual distro because work on it will be furthered by the distros' own communities.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHIkw4JZAjI |
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| 04 Oct 2015 05:34 PM |
| Just because certain operating systems are based on Linux does not make it Linux. Mac OS X is based on Linux but it is considered a separate operating system for logical reasons. |
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| 04 Oct 2015 05:35 PM |
Yet Linux only appeals to a small group of developers (according to games being developed)
in general
learning C++, LUA, Javascript, and HTML
will let anyone run a game with a website
#code print ("Shots fired, ready for the war!") -- Currently working on Gui's |
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| 04 Oct 2015 05:36 PM |
| MAC OS X is not based on Linux. However, they are both based on UNIX. |
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Flufska
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| 04 Oct 2015 05:38 PM |
Seems pretty silly to me that they would put porting ROBLOX to a console before porting it to an operating system. Then again, Microsoft is probably paying them to shill for their new console.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHIkw4JZAjI |
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Flufska
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| 04 Oct 2015 05:50 PM |
sudo apt-get install bump-2.0.0
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHIkw4JZAjI |
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| 04 Oct 2015 05:51 PM |
Linux is an open based console
websites have one as well
its called
"console.log()"
windows works fine and so does mac
#code print ("Shots fired, ready for the war!") -- Currently working on Gui's |
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man1912
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| 04 Oct 2015 06:24 PM |
| Linux is a piece of crap that can barely handle YouTube videos. |
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man1912
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| 05 Oct 2015 03:53 PM |
| It means you agree with the post above. |
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