14 years after playing League Of Legends for the first time ever, I, today, played it on Linux!

I've been playing LoL since a long time - practically since my friends etc. started it in 2009. I was on windows back then and moved slowly and slowly to Linux via dual boot. These days I only used windows for gaming and Linux (Ubuntu) for everything else.

While back then, stuff like FLOSS and co. wasn't that important to me - these days I appreciate it much more - and I like to have a computer which just doesn't annoy me with bloat and doesn't do stuff I don't want it to do.

After hearing about the steam deck stuff recently I gave gaming on Linux a try. I just follow the few simple steps outlined in online guides. It was pretty easy to install steam and league of legends. I even played a few very old games on steam - games which I didn't play all the time because I wouldn't boot up windows just for them.

I did decrease the LoL graphics a bit - as my laptop is a bit older. But seriously... League of Legends was working! It was working flawlessly! 🤩 I didn't see any crashes or stuff like that. I played a few games and realised, that I really didn't need to go back to windows anymore.

I'm migrating to a new laptop with better specs soon - and It'll be my first laptop in 1.5 decades that will not have dual boot. 😇 If I ever need windows again I'll either use the dual boot on my old laptop or simply run a VM for such rare cases. But even things like MS Teams work in the browser, so no need for Windows unless it's MS Office - which I never needed yet.

Just wanted to share my recent personal experience 😃