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Re:Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So... by himinlomax on Monday April 20, 2020 @02:03PM (#22926551)
The main company working on anti-cheat software was bough by Epic, and they dropped their Linux efforts as a result.
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Re:Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So... by tvb12 on Monday April 20, 2020 @03:45PM (#22927649)
Epic is kind of a thorn in the side for me when gaming (on a Linux distribution). There are a few Epic exclusive games that I'd like to play (Arise: a simple story, Journey, etc.), but they don't even have entries in protondb.

That's probably due to Epic not having a launcher for Linux. A few months ago(?), I read it had become possible to run the launcher through Wine, but I don't think that's changed anything on the porting side.

I worry that games which are released as Epic exclusives may fall by the wayside when/if they eventually become nonexclusive.

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Re:Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So... by ekianjo on Monday April 20, 2020 @06:52PM (#22929733)
You can run the epic games store on Linux and so far it worls well for indie titles I tried there. Not sure about AAA titles.
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Re:Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So... by ThatPlayer on Monday April 20, 2020 @07:35PM (#22930130)
The company being bought by Epic happened before this news about the Linux effort. So I don't think that timeline is correct.
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Re:Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So... by coldpie on Monday April 20, 2020 @04:07PM (#22927935)
Do you have a source for this claim?
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Re:Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So... by himinlomax on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @11:27AM (#22935757)
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/blbebq/ethi...
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