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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by immigrantsheep on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:35PM (#24148605)
AFAIK Valve already tried the whole Linux as a gaming platform thing and gave up completely a few months ago.
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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by brnt on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:50PM (#24148890)
Where did you get this silly idea? Linux gaming has never been stronger than now, thanks to Steam's Proton.
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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by paxys on Thursday August 13, 2020 @05:26PM (#24149506)
The fact that they are starting to put resources behind Proton instead of Ubuntu/SteamOS is in fact a clear indication that they have given up on games written natively for Linux.
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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by three_seagrass on Thursday August 13, 2020 @05:50PM (#24149866)
That's still Steam bringing games to Linux though, right?

Whether or not it's native or wine doesn't change the fact that Steam is pushing into Linux. They've shifted the responsibility from pushing linux support on the developer to providing linux support themselves.

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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by p1necone on Thursday August 13, 2020 @06:37PM (#24150448)
Linux needs to attract gamers before game devs will widely support Linux. It's a chicken and egg problem that proton neatly sidesteps.

Valve will have a much easier time improving proton than they will forcing devs to make Linux compatible games for little monetary reward.

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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by brnt on Thursday August 13, 2020 @05:28PM (#24149550)
Windows as a library, what's not to love? This gamer cares whether the games run, not about nativity.
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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by m-p-3 on Thursday August 13, 2020 @06:46PM (#24150571)
In order to attract more developers to develop on Linux or at least make it work through Proton, Valve is taking the path of least resistance. Proton seems to be a good step toward that end.
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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by dvtrn on Thursday August 13, 2020 @05:12PM (#24149268)
Where did you get this silly idea?

Valve's decision to no longer support Ubuntu as a first-class distribution, a year ago, probably. Though that's just one distribution, not Linux as a whole.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/steam-announces-that-its...

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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by kllrnohj on Thursday August 13, 2020 @05:24PM (#24149471)
Worth noting that that's obsolete. Canonical has since walked back on 32-bit apps being available in Ubuntu, and as a result Valve as brought Steam back to Ubuntu: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/valve-confrims-steam-lin...
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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by dvtrn on Thursday August 13, 2020 @05:27PM (#24149521)
Oh would you look at that! Thanks for the correction
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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by duskwuff on Thursday August 13, 2020 @05:56PM (#24149935)
I'm not convinced it was ever something they wholeheartedly supported -- I suspect it was more of a hedge than anything. The Steam Machine hardware project, which was their big Linux push, wound down around 2016.
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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by recklesstodd on Thursday August 13, 2020 @05:12PM (#24149280)
Valve is actively contributing to Proton and the number of supported games increases continuously. https://www.protondb.com/ tracks the playability of each game in Linux.
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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by the_af on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:53PM (#24148937)
Gave up completely? Well, that sucks if true. Plenty of awesome Linux games on Steam. Got any links?
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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by winter_blue on Thursday August 13, 2020 @05:42PM (#24149755)
This is completely false. They've been contributing massively to the gaming scene on Linux, especially with Proton – a more fine-tuned version of Wine, that makes playing Windows games on Linux seamless and easy.
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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by m4rtink on Thursday August 13, 2020 @09:54PM (#24152304)
And all these improvements trickle down to the respective upstream prkjects and default version. For example Fedora 33 should use dxvk for directx games by default, all at least partially thanks to the relenteless work of Valve. :-)
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