Good thing GOG and Steam are pressuring them
Regardless of whether or not you play their games. This is a sign for how steam is forcing other’s hands. It is a good thing.
I’m torn. It’s a pretty good thing that they feel compelled to do this, and I will have acces to all the free shit I claimed.
But I am just past the stage of really wanting this.
Finally I can say: “I purposefully do not install the Epic store” instead of “Unfortunately, I can’t install Epic store”
Hopefully his is a sign of linux becoming inevitable. Once all of gaming is aware of Linux and provides binaries and clients for linux, maybe the business world will catch up and go “maybe we need to provide linux as a default on the hardware we sell”. That’s when things will swing around.
If personal computing still exists by then.
Okay but the launcher running means nothing if theres no translation layer management for the user. What are they gonna just use wine? Highly doubt Epic can compete with Steam’s Proton (which also uses wine)
Huh… I thought:
Installing Linux is sort of the equivalent of moving to Canada when one doesn’t like US political trends.
Nope, we’ve got to fight for the freedoms we have today, where we have them today
Tim Sweeney, 2018
In 2018 windows 10 was still going to be viable for years to come and windows 11 didn’t exist and valve hadn’t made proton awesome with Linux and less than 2% of gamers used Linux.
By the end of 2027, not supporting Linux will actually cost you them a noticeable amount of money.
