cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37358118
If you're not using Hannah Montana Linux you should just go eat poison and save the Linux community from your existence.
this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2025
434 points (97.8% liked)
linuxmemes
27722 readers
1555 users here now
Hint: :q!
Sister communities:
Community rules (click to expand)
1. Follow the site-wide rules
- Instance-wide TOS: https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
- Lemmy code of conduct: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/code_of_conduct.html
2. Be civil
- Understand the difference between a joke and an insult.
- Do not harrass or attack users for any reason. This includes using blanket terms, like "every user of thing".
- Don't get baited into back-and-forth insults. We are not animals.
- Leave remarks of "peasantry" to the PCMR community. If you dislike an OS/service/application, attack the thing you dislike, not the individuals who use it. Some people may not have a choice.
- Bigotry will not be tolerated.
3. Post Linux-related content
- Including Unix and BSD.
- Non-Linux content is acceptable as long as it makes a reference to Linux. For example, the poorly made mockery of
sudoin Windows. - No porn, no politics, no trolling or ragebaiting.
4. No recent reposts
- Everybody uses Arch btw, can't quit Vim, <loves/tolerates/hates> systemd, and wants to interject for a moment. You can stop now.
5. π¬π§ Language/ΡΠ·ΡΠΊ/Sprache
- This is primarily an English-speaking community. π¬π§π¦πΊπΊπΈ
- Comments written in other languages are allowed.
- The substance of a post should be comprehensible for people who only speak English.
- Titles and post bodies written in other languages will be allowed, but only as long as the above rule is observed.
6. (NEW!) Regarding public figures
We all have our opinions, and certain public figures can be divisive. Keep in mind that this is a community for memes and light-hearted fun, not for airing grievances or leveling accusations. - Keep discussions polite and free of disparagement.
- We are never in possession of all of the facts. Defamatory comments will not be tolerated.
- Discussions that get too heated will be locked and offending comments removed. Β
Please report posts and comments that break these rules!
Important: never execute code or follow advice that you don't understand or can't verify, especially here. The word of the day is credibility. This is a meme community -- even the most helpful comments might just be shitposts that can damage your system. Be aware, be smart, don't remove France.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I play Roblox with my son using Linux. The program is called Sober and itβs more than fine, itβs free, and updated regularly when Roblox security/program updates.
Similar boat... 4 years ago (or so) that is all my kid wanted. For those who care, Roblox purposely blocked Linux, there is nothing inherent in the OS that would make Roblox not run.
Took a bit of config but managed and my kid was able to play that garbage for a few months until the novelty wore off
yeah i remember the devs were talking about adding actual support for linux, and all they did was block it
As an old curmudgeon, I refuse to learn what the Roblox is
It's child exploitation for profit:
investigation: How Roblox is Exploiting Young Game Developers
It's the only piece of consumer software I've ever used that I straight-up thought should be illegal after I tried it. If you're a parent, and you're wondering if you should let your child explore Roblox: DON'T. Ban any videos that mention Roblox from their apps, do not install the game, and do not ever give that company a single cent. The entire structure is designed to torment children and yank on their psychological levers until they beg their parents to buy them in-game currency to turn their low-low into a high-high for a couple of minutes, then restart the cycle.
There are VIP areas that you have to have a subscription (pay) to go into, and devs are incentivized to add them by kickbacks, so they show up in just about every game. In competitive games where you chase other players to catch them, if you don't have VIP the other players can literally just go through a wall you can't pass to get away. Then they can get boosts in the VIP area to get an unfair advantage.
There's the "revenge" buttons, where if someone in a competitive game wins against you, it gives you a button you can click to to punish the other player in various ways. Naturally, it costs real money.
Obstacle courses start out decent, but once you're far enough in that the sunk cost fallacy is in effect, it ramps the difficulty up massively and frustrates you over and over. And each time you respawn it makes you walk past the item you can buy that will make this frustrating part disappear and get you back to the nice dopamine hits like you had earlier in the map.
And of course, every game tries to make people who buy the pay-to-win items as visible as possible, and make it look as spectacular as possible. It's masterful psychological manipulation, and while the games with these exploitative systems are made by devs external to Roblox itself, the economy and reward systems that shaped those games is defined by Roblox. It's actually worse that you have external devs, because it insulates Roblox from the responsibility for these exploitative mechanics, while Roblox acts as the bank you use to buy currency for the games. Roblox only cares about money, and they don't care how many abusive things their games have to do to kids to get it.
I'm about as far from a pearl-clutcher as you can get while still being a responsible parent, but even before considering that the social features are repeatedly being used to groom children, Roblox simply should not be allowed to exist. Play Goat Simulator 3 with your kid instead. Or Minecraft. Or Terraria. A Lego game. Bayonetta. I don't care--anything but Roblox.
Gotta get them started early on the capitalism train. Prove to them that money makes right.
If you can buy it, it's morally good! :)
If it doesn't make a profit, it's morally bad! :(
If you can't get exactly what you want, don't work for it, just buy it.
Money is the only thing you need. You don't need friends. Or family. Or a community. You see they are all just trying to get your money!
Seriously, we are brainwashing people with these fucked up game mechanics. These are very young impressionable children.
All of this is ignoring that pedophillic aspect of Roblox which is also horrific.
How Warcraft 3 is exploiting young game developers.
How Starcraft: Brood War is taking adavantage of free labor
Use Map Settings
In this house we're a Minecraft family
nah we play terraria
proving once again you are a wise curmudgeon
As a similarly old curmudgeon, my understanding is that it's like Second Life, but with the ability for users to create whole-ass games. And (hopefully) less cybersex considering the primary audience is underage
To get items in Roblox for a relative, I used to pretend to be a child and find users who would groom me. They were entirely unaware that I was quite probably older than they were. I saved hundreds of dollars on gifts, and it didnβt cost me all that much time. Roblox is not safe for kids
I play online with my son and have never ever seen that. It's almost all tower defense games which would be a different crowd.
What games were you playing that had that kind of chat going on?
any RP game also has some of that
Ninja something, muscle something, and a game that looked a bit like prototype. All incremental games. As you can tell, I wasnβt particularly invested in them. I donβt imagine you or your son begged in global chat for several minutes at a time with intentional spelling errors.
Well I hate to be the bearer of bad news...
Unfortunately, whole ass-games are very much present on Roblox (they're so common there's a six-letter collective noun for them which I won't repeat in this SFW community).
are you talking about the T word?
No. The Co word.
ok i thought it was Tycoon but this might be something new (i havent played in a couple of years)
Shovel? As in shovelware?
No.
It's not second life at all. It's a game platform like Steam. But they made it super easy so kids starting coding their own games.
Back in the 80's there were computer magazines that would post BASIC code you could type in and play a simple game. Kids would mail in their code and it would be published. Same exploitation of child labor.
its more like play store games but all of them run on a single engine
and i say this because play store games has way more p2w garbage than steam
Is there no way to play roblox currently? I thought there was a launcher that did weird stuff to the android version like we have for minecraft bedrock
Yes, it's called Sober. It is not official, and may lose functionality at any time due to updates to client-side anti-cheat.
My kids use it almost daily. Really only breaks for special events. Otherwise an update fixes all other issues.
Yeah, whatβs that about? Events like The Hunt and Iβm completely locked out. Sober just puts a βtotally normal, Roblox did this, and weβre sorryβ message up but Iβve never know the why.
My teenage daughter who will probably never try crack because she has Roblox instead gets deep into this stuff. She said that the developers of Sober disabled it for "The Hunt" voluntarily just to avoid drawing any ire from the Roblox developers since they're vaguely aware of Sober's existence and I guess tolerate it as long as it isn't causing problems for them. If anyone was accused of using Sober to cheat during such a high profile event it would be bad news for them.
ok ive played roblox for years (i have also stopped playing a couple of years ago) and what the heck is the hunt
It was a big scavenger hunt event where they awarded some pretty hefty cash prizes. It lasted several weeks from what I remember.
oh ok
No one should patronize Roblox. They exploit child labor for profit:
investigation: How Roblox is Exploiting Young Game Developers
Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.
When you hear "Roblox" you should think "child exploitation".
I thought for a sec this was calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world, anyone knows what happened to it? It's been a week since the bot posted something there