![]() ![]() I’ve seen quite a bit of developers leave the platform because they no longer want to deal with Windows and/or maintaining a working copy of Roblox Studio under WINE. Not on the Chromebook side of things, but what I didn’t think of before is that Roblox is losing out on a group of developers by not supporting at least Roblox Studio on Linux. Taking in account that schools are trending towards replacing their current devices with Chromebooks, having Roblox Studio available on Chromebooks might be an important step in getting or keeping Roblox in the classroom. They were very excited to incorporate Roblox into their technology related educated programs instead of something like Scracth, since Roblox translates to actual real world experience. Though I do see how developers are minority of roblox player base and even smaller part of them are interested in using linux and their own tailored development tools.Īll that said, earlier this year I finished a Roblox related project with someone at my university, and in the process we brought Roblox to the attention of some educators. I personally find working in unix environment as much smoother experience, especially if you make use of external tools to work on roblox projects. On the topic of an official port, I think the developers would benefit from this the most. It seems that the player trips on some security check and since that’s sort of the intentional feature, there are no relevant messages spewed out by wine. Tried looking everywhere, but didn’t find any reasonable errors on what goes wrong. Getting the player to work, on the other hand, is pretty hopeless. Studio works very nicely toghether with wine, with the only exception being test server, although I managed to find a fix for that. Not going to voice in on the politics side of this issue, but I can share some of my experience using roblox on linux.įor around half a year I’ve been fully maining arch linux and even managed to get some work done on roblox fairly smoothly. The enormous amount of distros, each with their own different systems doesn’t help either. I don’t think Roblox will be ever supporting Linux, though, and the reasons stated by the employees are pretty much valid. I was a Linux user for about a year and half, and something I definitely missed in this was proper support for games. Tl dr: Tagging Linux as an exploiting tool and disregarding other systems in that capability is not a valid argument. That opens a door not only for malware but for exploiting tools too, allowing them to manipulate system resources that applications use. Lastly, Windows and its backbones are not exactly “secure”, because, differently from open-source community initiatives, the only security patches you’ll get are from Microsoft (which usually take a long time to be assembled, distributed and installed). Today’s serious exploits are cross-platform, ya know? Of course, Linux does provide some extra low-level tools so you can tweak the system as you wish, but most of the time the cheaters you see in games are using Windows. In order to exploit a game, you need to edit its memory/manipulate its network requests/do other low-level stuff and that is possible in all systems, given the tools are available.įor games like CS:GO, there are specialized third-parties that carefully design their cheats around known vulnerabilities in the VAC system, which are kept really secured by Valve, and the situation is not much different from Roblox: there is a whole forum dedicated to exploiting Roblox that is pretty much known by every developer/staff member nowadays. I just want to remark here that you can play Roblox from the command line in all supported OSes and that does not instantly mean I can exploit it. The only thing that would benefit from having linux support would be exploiting the game – just look at CSGO. ![]()
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