Gamescom Showed Me That Devs Really Care About Steam Deck Compatibility - Steam Deck HQ
Gamescom Showed Me That Devs Really Care About Steam Deck Compatibility - Steam Deck HQ
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
How can anyone hate linux... It's just there for you... Not demanding anything from you... Just there... For you...
Two reasons:
First, rather than just overseeing the most profitable game in the world, Sweeney tied his leadership at Epic to picking fights with Apple and Steam to try to muscle his way into a broader industry position. With how broken and barely functional the EGS is, it's incredibly obvious there is no way he can muster a team to do ANYTHING like Proton, so his solution is to go full throttle into pretending Windows is fine and not a dependency with existential risk.
Second, the bread and butter of EGS is Fortnite, and the developers at Epic are apparently completely unable to engineer any kind of effective anti-cheat which doesn't involve kernel level access. It is actually easier to save face by pretending the entire Linux ecosystem doesn't matter than to officially support Linux and then have to explain why Fortnite isn't available.
The ironic thing is, if he'd put the money the company wasted on exclusives and free giveaways into actual development, they could EASILY have solved all of these problems. It is fascinating, however, to watch Fortnite players dump literal billions of dollars into the company each year, just to watch it get flushed away into absolutely nothing.
The only people willing to put up with EGS' crappy performance are (a subset of) windows users
Same reason poor people defend billionaires... the poor people somehow think they may get there. Tim fights Apple because it is an impediment for him to get to his own walled garden
I can't find it now, but back in the late 90s Tim Sweeney tried Linux / KDevelop for a week and, if he liked it, would make games for Linux. It was on Slashdot if I remember correctly.
It went fine, but some features like hot code swap weren't available like they were in MSVC. I see that he's still moving those goalposts.
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)
If you target the lowest common denominator, you're likely to catch more fish. Its great to see developers make games with the Deck in mind.
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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.
I dream of the day Windows gamers have to use WSL to play most Steam games
