Sober: The New Way To Play Roblox On Linux

Hey folks! Just wanna say that I am NOT a developer of Sober, nor am I affiliated with VinegarHQ. While they do watch my videos and offer me feedback (thanks guys), they are the ones you'll want to reach to if you're experiencing any technical issues with Sober. Just as another reminder, Sober at this moment is experimental software (it's less than a month old) and you may run into issues that will affect your experience or whether you get to play on it.

That being said, I'll dedicate the rest of this comment to addressing some commonly asked questions I'm seeing pop up (I will update this comment with more FAQs if I see them pop up):

"I just updated Sober and got kicked back to the setup screen. What do I do?"
Usually Sober updates after the Roblox Android App has updated to a newer version. You can update your sober by running "flatpak update" in your terminal or you can go to your GUI package manager (e.g. KDE Discover, GNOME Software) and update your flatpak there. After that, you'll need to download the latest version of the Roblox Android app and refeed them to Sober so you'll be able to continue playing. Ever since I have made this video, they have updated Sober to now tell you which version of the APK you'll need, but hopefully a smoother process will be included in the future.

"Sober only is involved with the Roblox Player. How do you run Roblox Studio?"
Roblox Studio, unlike the Roblox Player, hasn't been affected by the wine block because Roblox Studio doesn't include Hyperion (Byfron's Anticheat). You should still be able to use the previous Wine-based solutions (like Grapejuice and Vinegar) to run Roblox Studio. However, as there are some well known issues with Studio, there are a few patches that are needed for a more stable experience. They should have the patches listed in their wiki if you wanna follow my 2022 tutorial on building your own Wine, but they also pre-patch it in their Flatpaks they distribute.

"My GPU or CPU is incompatible"
Like previous Wine-based solutions, Sober requires a Vulkan compatible GPU or integrated graphics to run. And it seems like VinegarHQ is not interested in adding support for OpenGL when I reached out to them about this, considering that Roblox's support for OpenGL is quietly being abandoned (after all, Vulkan is literally the successor for OpenGL and why it was code named "OpenGL Next").

Alternatively, I do notice with discussions in the Vinegar discord that graphics drivers updates can lag behind in Flatpak. In that case, you'll need to join the VinegarHQ discord server to find out more about this and when you can expect Flatpak to deliver the newest update for your drivers.

"I am getting banned because Roblox is saying I'm modifying my client. Does Roblox approve of Sober?"
Sober is a new app so we don't have a full idea of what Roblox thinks about the project. But I will say that Bitdancer, a Roblox admin who is the main man behind Roblox on Linux and fighting for its support, is aware of Sober's existence. There was an incident shared in the Vinegar Discord server of someone being allegedly banned for using Sober. However, Bitdancer himself stated that Sober had NOTHING to do with the person's ban and implied that user actually cheated which got them the ban. Roblox issues a majority of their anticheat bans in banwaves, so if you're seeing someone saying they're getting banned for using Sober, good chance that it is someone who got caught using actual cheats on Windows or another device, and they got caught in a banwave when they started using Sober.

Sober does NOT modify the Roblox client in anyway shape or form. Sober just recreates the Android software stack and creates an optimized runtime environment for the app to run in. There is no way this should be triggering the anticheat and should be issuing you a ban. I have been using Sober extensively and I have yet to see my alt account face action for it.

"Why is Sober not accepting my APK file? / Why is Sober closed source?"
Make sure that you are grabbing the latest version of Roblox and that it is an official Roblox APK. If a new Roblox APK just came out, it'll take time for Sober to update to the new APK and you'll probably need to try the previous version until Sober updates.

It isn't uncommon for people to try and modify the Android app to try and exploit, and Sober will reject these APKs if you supply them. It seems to me this is the big reason why Sober is currently closed-source, as they don't want to repeat what happened with the Wine block and they want to ensure that people can play Roblox on Linux for as long as possible.

Awesome, quick question. Does it work with X server? Because currently, my desktop environment does not support Wayland. I would prefer not to install a Wayland compositor and Wayland desktop environment just to run Roblox, I run XFCE4(ubuntu 22.04 package, Mint package set).

Another day, another victory for the Linux Community.

how to uninstall it

I can't tell if this guy is 13 or 20 years old

I've been using Sober for the week or so and it's worked great! Very happy I can play Roblox again on Linux.

i hate that Ubisoft intentionally blocked support for Linux in Rainbow Six (which did work for some days after the launch of the battleye runtime for Proton).

Getting a roblox apk from the internet is entirely legit and legal as roblox doesnt cost anything.

so no roblox studio

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