Support Linux - Roblox Forum Archive

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#29377175Friday, July 16, 2010 7:31 AM GMT

I have a laptop with Linux, and I would love for ROBLOX to support Linux! I like Linux better than Mac and Windows is because... Lots of reasons. FREE. Windows and Mac are made to let anything in where ever you go on the internet. That causes viruses. Linux is not made that way, if a program is trying run without your permission, Linux will detect it and ask your permission. BTW, Linux is FREE because volenteers from all around the world help develop it. I just want to give some reasons why ROBLOX NEEDS to support Linux! Don't work on make ROBLOX able to play on phones... No point.

Partmedia

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#29857256Friday, July 23, 2010 1:01 AM GMT

Good day to you, Andymewborn! I've run plenty of Windows applications on Linux with no problem. W.I.N.E is an excellent tool to run Windows applications on Linux. I run Fedora Linux Core 6 and Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5, and W.I.N.E. has installed and worked with no problem. Please read my W.I.N.E. post here: http://www.roblox.com/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=29694171

BeepBoopBop

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#29857437Friday, July 23, 2010 1:03 AM GMT

It's not as simple as you think... They need to switch from ActiveX to NPAPI, which means they also need to ditch MSTHML. But if they were to do that, it'd also be compatable with Mac. {"A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere."}

TaslemGuy

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#29857527Friday, July 23, 2010 1:04 AM GMT

W.I.N.E can run ROBLOX on Linux. top whining, Linux is barely compatible and would take a long time to convert ROBLOX.

BeepBoopBop

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#29857584Friday, July 23, 2010 1:05 AM GMT

And quite a bit of other problems along side with MSTHML and ActiveX... {"A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere."}

MattLJeevas

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#29857963Friday, July 23, 2010 1:10 AM GMT

Already being worked on

andymewborn

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#29860278Friday, July 23, 2010 1:43 AM GMT

Not it's not. Roblox is only working on getting ROBLOX to run on portable devices and on MAC. Which I hate MAC.

BeepBoopBop

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#29860710Friday, July 23, 2010 1:49 AM GMT

1) There's no reason to only make it compatable on Mac and not Linux. 2) Mac isn't an acronym.

andymewborn

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#29860842Friday, July 23, 2010 1:51 AM GMT

A lot more people use MAC than Linux. And MORE users request MAC than Linux. :(

dawoofinater

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#29860878Friday, July 23, 2010 1:51 AM GMT

Bepp it stands for My Awesome Computer

dawoofinater

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#29860927Friday, July 23, 2010 1:52 AM GMT

*Beep*

Partmedia

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#34117924Monday, September 20, 2010 11:56 AM GMT

It goes without saying that ROBLOX needs to support more operating systems other than Windows. It seems that the ROBLOX developers are just chilling out in their studio with Visual C++ or something.