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Re:Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday June 19, 2020 @11:09AM (#23575245)
> Really? I've had pretty much no issues playing video games on Linux for the past 2 years.

Yes, really. This just sounds like the standard Linux Desktop evangelist "Works for me! (TM)". Take this case [0], where in it is claimed that support requests for Linux were vastly disproportionate to the number of Linux users.

Linux has huge problems as a platform due to its fragmentary and ever-changing nature combined with its near-total disregard (in userland) for backwards compatibility. People have been screaming this at the community for the better part of a decade and a half (including Linus himself!) and mostly falling on deaf ears.

Which is not to say that one should support Epic if you do happen to care about gaming on Linux. Quite the opposite, as Valve has done more than anyone[1] to try and make it work.

[0] https://twitter.com/bgolus/status/1080213166116597760

[1] With the exception of the entire WINE project in general

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Re:Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores by Kaze404 on Friday June 19, 2020 @11:16AM (#23575317)
I agree. Linux definitely has a long way before it's usable for the majority of the public for gaming. I only wanted to point that out because the myth that Linux can't play games still exists for some reason, while I'm sitting here playing every game that I want (except for those with rootkit anti-cheats. I have a VM for them).
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Re:Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores by BoorishBears on Friday June 19, 2020 @11:37AM (#23575505)
Where in my comment do I say Linux can't play games? My comment literally doesn't make sense _unless_ linux can play games

"Linux definitely has a long way before it's usable for the majority of the public for gaming", is the crux of my comment.

Linux users on here just get very defensive when you bring up very obvious shortcomings and immediately go into "it's not that bad"-mode

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Re:Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores by pjmlp on Saturday June 20, 2020 @12:20AM (#23581625)
A very loooong way, hence why game studios rather target Android instead, and using the NDK is anything but fun.
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Re:Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores by msla on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:48PM (#23632187)
Insisting that Linux can't do something is a poor way to argue, especially when it's in the face of someone saying Linux can do precisely that.
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