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Goodbye to Roblox on Linux with their new anti-cheat and Wine blocking:
You might have seen recently that I covered the upcoming updates for Roblox*, and now it's here blocking Wine with their new anti-cheat. This means you won't be able to play it on Linux any more, at all, unless you find some sort of special workaround.
Previously the roll-out of this update was being tested only with some users. Now though it's here for everyone giving a 64 bit client and introducing their Hyperion anti-cheat software which they are intentionally blocking Wine with. Naturally plenty of Roblox fans on Linux are upset by this, asking their team for updates on what their plans are.
In a fresh statement on their official developer forum one of their staff said this, in reply to users asking about updates in regards to Linux support:
Hi - thanks for the question. I definitely get where you're coming from, and as you point out, you deserve a clear, good-faith answer. Unfortunately that answer is essentially "no."
[...] Again, I'm personally sorry to have to say this. Way back in 2000 I had a few patches accepted into the kernel, and I led the port of Roblox game servers from Windows to Linux several years ago. From a technical and philosophical perspective, it would be a wonderful thing to do. But our first responsibility is to our overall community, and the opportunity cost of supporting a Linux client is far, far too high to justify.
They're clearly not going to be releasing a Native Linux build, which I think most people probably already knew, but at least previously they repeatedly said that Wine was a "priority" to support but now it doesn't sound as likely going by the above.
What is Roblox? Roblox is an app that allows users to play a wide variety of games, create games, and chat with others online. It combines gaming, social media, and social commerce. Billing itself as the “ultimate virtual universe,” Roblox experiences are places where users can socialize, build their own spaces, and even earn and spend virtual money.
Apparently, it is very "popular with kids".
(Score: 2) by GloomMower on Tuesday May 16, @02:44PM (1 child)
Do they let you install ssh/git? You can set up a SSH Proxy tunnel and use the windows computer just as sort of a VPN router.
https://coldstonelabs.org/SSH%20Proxy.pdf [coldstonelabs.org]
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday May 16, @05:51PM
There are ways and ways... I had a socks5 proxy server installed way back that let me get from my Linux dev system into the company network via VPN.
I also was running VNC server on a regular basis, and one day I had a group of about 5 corporate head IT office types "drop by" my cube and ask about how I was using VNC. I showed them how it enabled me to screen share with colleagues across the country on our product's console (which ran Ubuntu 14.04 at the time) and how the standard Windows desktop sharing couldn't really serve that purpose. They all nodded thoughtfully and went away, I never heard peep back from them.
The current product's console is architected with an AMQP message broker onboard, so I'm running the server interface that needs to be on the VPN on Windows on the company laptop and it communicates via the message broker with the Ubuntu console, and the software there is none-the-wiser that the REST interfaces are running on a different machine.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end