- cross-posted to:
- steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
- cross-posted to:
- steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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Tim Sweeney (crying): “There’s no future in Linux gaming. No! Stop it! Stop enjoying the good thing that isn’t from me!!!”
Tim Sweeney being so against Linux is baffling to me.
You’d think that with Epic battling against Apple and Google’s mobile ecosystems that he’d think “huh, we really shouldn’t put all our eggs in the Windows basket, what with Microsoft clearly trying to go down the locked-down mobile-like route for Windows”, but he doesn’t. He’s just relying on Microsoft’s goodwill (lol). It’s crazy.
It just demonstrates to me that it was never about being locked down and was always about them taking his money
That’s why I deleted my Epic Games account when they got bought by Tencent. Though their support was not happy I was exercising my GDPR rights and it took a lot of back and forth with them before they finally deleted it.
How can anyone hate linux… It’s just there for you… Not demanding anything from you… Just there… For you…
I don’t even want to use EGS on Windows. Steam may be clunky, but Epic is unusably slow.
The heroic games launcher is decent, works on Linux as well
I have so many games in my EGS library. Thank god for Lutris. Lmao
Heroic launcher is also an option for EGS on Linux.
I dream of the day Windows gamers have to use WSL to play most Steam games
AMD recently launched their 9000 series CPUs. Most reviews showed lackluster performance. Except for Linux. Turns out it was a Windows problem that will be fixed with the next release. Initial tests show big gains depending on the game.
Microsoft is selling Windows as the gaming platform. It’s just marketing. And it’s crumbling just a little bit. I hope this will at least lead to parity with Linux.
Steam deck compatibility helps people with low spec PCs the ability to play new games.
More importantly it helps people radicalised by Stallman to play games on their GNU/linux machines (kidding)
I know you are kidding, but after the failed Steam Machines, the Steam deck has made people realize that gaming on Linux is mostly viable. Microsoft has pissed me off enough with windows 11, that I have decided to switch to Linux as my main OS on desktop as well.
I switched some years ago away from 7 when 10 came out and the “free” upgrade nuked itself and its partition into an unrecoverable state. Windows and Linux can both be their own hassle in different ways, but at least with Linux I got control back over my operating system, and that felt so damn good.
Pretty much the only remaining hurdle to Linux gaming is kernel-level anti-cheat which may be going away in the near future.
When I got my steam deck in 2022, I prepared an SD specifically for booting windows, because I figured I might need to boot it at some point for playing a game. 1 year later, I have not once had to boot windows to play a game. Incidentally, it often was easier to get older games working on proton in Linux than it was on a modern windows system.
I am not personally playing many multiplayer games, though, but I can see how being locked out of playing a current multiplayer game with your friends would be an issue. We can only hope that kernel level anti cheat is going the way of the dodo. But from what i understand, that would in a lot of cases mean for Tim Sweeney to get off his high horse, because of EOS, no?
