Comment on Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon"

iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There’s two competitions here, windows vs Linux, and steam vs epic.

  Of those two, I consider windows vs Linux the more important competition for consumers. And Linux is the underdog there, so I think Linux doing better will help more people than any other result of this.

  So the question becomes, is this good or bad for Linux? More official support for Linux is good obviously, but also Valve funds a lot of open source projects and generally invests a lot of money in Linux (and I’m very doubtful that Epic will do anything similar). So arguably Valve doing better and having a larger monopoly might do more good in the long run, if it helps counteract the windows monopoly. Of course, that would only matter if Epic on Linux actually dents Steam’s market share in any meaningful way, which seems unlikely.

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