My on WSL: a brilliant idea

[Leogradance]

I am a backer of the second wave, the early access one at 2018.
I read about MyDu a few days ago.
I come home happy from work thinking "finally I can go back to my sci-fi dream by skimming it from all the.... let's call them... "questionable choices" of the Devs.
I download MyDu.
"Do you need Docker Desktop"
Wut...?

Ok... I download Docker Desktop. Which completely screws up all my internet settings by going to look for a virtualization platform that is not in my PC. I could no longer access the internet and non-existent and never wanted systems appeared in my OS.
I am lucky that my wife works with these things and restored my system in a short time, otherwise I would have spent a week trying to understand what had happened.

 

But does it seem normal to you that a game wants you to download a containerization system that is based on WSL which is a Linux virtualization system on Windows?
I am a gamer, not a developer.

Who had this brilliant idea?

[Wyndle]

The containers configuration are similar to other cloud based services.  The WSL2 layer on windows is the extra step to run the server locally. 

[Leogradance]

They are selling me a game.

I understand that those who know how to manage servers find this simple.

But it is not accessible to those who do not know how to do it.
The client should already have integrated the way to run the game without additional additions and without special settings.

It is conceptually poorly designed for the market.

[CptLoRes]

This time I have to defend NQ. Installing and self hosting a MMO (minus the massive?) server is not just running some game. Running a online server for a game like DU, means the technical complexity for managing the server side also goes up.

 

I am actually impressed NQ managed to turn the server side tech into something that we relatively easily can run from home at all.

[kleves]

is it hard to set up my du to two box?

 

[PvtCarnage]

On 9/5/2024 at 9:14 AM, Leogradance said:

I am a backer of the second wave, the early access one at 2018.
I read about MyDu a few days ago.
I come home happy from work thinking "finally I can go back to my sci-fi dream by skimming it from all the.... let's call them... "questionable choices" of the Devs.
I download MyDu.
"Do you need Docker Desktop"
Wut...?

Ok... I download Docker Desktop. Which completely screws up all my internet settings by going to look for a virtualization platform that is not in my PC. I could no longer access the internet and non-existent and never wanted systems appeared in my OS.
I am lucky that my wife works with these things and restored my system in a short time, otherwise I would have spent a week trying to understand what had happened.

 

But does it seem normal to you that a game wants you to download a containerization system that is based on WSL which is a Linux virtualization system on Windows?
I am a gamer, not a developer.

Who had this brilliant idea?

Yeah, having to deal with Docker just to play a game feels way too complicated. I’m with you, it should be streamlined for gamers, not developers. Not everyone wants to mess with virtualization just to get into the game.