Roblox

What works

Basic building. Lighting works too. Direct3D seems to make Roblox very, very, very ugly so use OpenGL.

You can actually play in your game too, but in Play Solo mode.

Meshes can be seen, including package bodies, hats and gear. Their textures load too.

Saving games work.

What does not

Some areas in Roblox Studio, like the toolbox (known as Insert.. in the old GUI) and web browser, require IE. If you don't have IE, it will display blank.

Shirts and pants love deciding whether they want to work or not.

Smoke caused the whole OS to crash on me.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Super build and inserting models from the hard drive.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Game freezes temporarily when there is a drastic change in the properties, like clicking a block then clicking Lighting. This is because of the Properties pane lagging up the window, close it for when you are not changing stuff like lighting. Direct3D makes the game look as terrible as hell. If you want to fix this, change the graphicsMode to OpenGL. If you don't like the guest look during gameplay, change the 1 in: http://www.roblox.com/Asset/CharacterFetch.ashx?userId=1&placeId=0 to your user ID (or someone else's if you like ;)), change the characterappearance to the new link (click characterappearance and then edit the link) and you can play your game solo in Linux with your own look. Rotating the camera seems to be a bit jerky with the mouse... You might need a better computer than mine, I was playing on a 2.80Ghz Intel Dual Core processor, 1GB RAM, 32-bit Ubuntu.

It is definitely possible to go through all of the steps of installing Roblox through it's installer, as well as everything that is needed for Roblox to run and configuring it's settings. 

However, as this process is tedious, especially for someone who just wants to get Roblox up and running, there are a few wrappers to make this process easier:

• Vinegar [Recommended] - Actively maintained fast and minimal wrapper created as an alternative to Grapejuice for more advanced Linux users.
  • Prebuilt packages for most major Linux distributions, as well as Flatpaks hosted on Flathub. 
  • Does not have a GUI for configuration (yet), so all the configuring is done by editing a text file.
  • Recommended due to it's ease of install and active maintaining.

• Grapejuice [NOT RECOMMENDED] - Another Roblox Linux wrapper focused on ease of install and use.
  • As of July 8th, 2024, Grapejuice has been marked as abandoned by it's head maintainer.
  • Please do not use Grapejuice anymore. The only reason why it was included in this list is to guide any newcomers away from it, since it was widely recommended in older tutorials. Use Vinegar instead.
  • Prebuilt packages for most major Linux distributions, however the Flatpak listed on the site does not exist anymore because the wrapper hasn't received updates in a long time.
  • Much less actively maintained than Vinegar since Roblox Player has stopped working with Wine.
  • Has a GUI for configuration.
• Roblox Linux Wrapper [NOT RECOMMENDED] - Possibly the first Roblox Linux wrapper to be made.
  • The project repository has been archived since April 1st, 2024.
  • Please do not use this. The only reason why it was included in this list is to guide any newcomers away from it, since it was widely recommended in older tutorials.

As of the time of writing this, Roblox Player doesn't work when ran with Wine.

The reason being is that Roblox's new anti-cheat is uncompatible with Wine's current function implementations. 

To avoid any confusion caused by sensationalist Linux news sources - no, Roblox did not intentionally ban Wine, nor is the company against Wine. As a matter of fact, when they were starting to introduce their new anti cheat, they have toned it down for Wine players exclusively so that they can keep on playing. Knowing this vulnerability, however, a considerable amount of cheaters have moved to Linux and have started developing cheats for Roblox on Wine. To prevent this, Roblox has introduced the same anti cheat capabilities for Wine players as it has for Windows players, effectively killing not only the possibility of Roblox on Wine cheats being developed, but also the possibility to run Roblox Player with Wine.