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mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Jocker@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How can anyone hate linux… It’s just there for you… Not demanding anything from you… Just there… For you…

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    • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      😮how can one write so cute

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    • filister@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Time?

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  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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 function 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 integrate Proton 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.

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The only people willing to put up with EGS’ crappy performance are windows users

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  • exanime@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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• wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t even want to use EGS on Windows. Steam may be clunky, but Epic is unusably slow.

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  • aStonedSanta@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have so many games in my EGS library. Thank god for Lutris. Lmao

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    • SeekPie@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Heroic launcher is also an option for EGS on Linux.

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  • EddoWagt@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The heroic games launcher is decent, works on Linux as well

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• thrakkerzog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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