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[–] [email protected] 117 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Epic enshittified early. The whole system was terrible and they force it onto you. Here is valve actively making it easier to play your games while epic was like "It's PC gaming, you get the good with the bad, suck it!". You can't simply buy your competition when your competition has more money than God.

Epic is failing because Tim Sweeney refused to innovate the platform.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Fuck Tim Sweeney with a linux powered dildo.

He is the reason linux gaming is being held back.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Pornhub video title would be: "Getting all my weak spots penetrated at once by software using 'unsafe custom kernels' "

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Even Microsoft doesn't seem to be actively preventing their games from running on Linux. Fuck Sweeney.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I played Forza Horizon 4 and 5 on Linux with no issues. But I give the laurels to Steam and Proton.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Oh, yeah, Valve and Proton are to thank. I'm just saying Microsoft's not blocking Proton like Epic and a few others seem to be. I can appreciate the stance of "We won't help you, but we won't stop you either. Good luck" that I think MS is taking with this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, Linux is the reason Linux gaming is held back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In trying to switch to Linux but all the fucking around to make some games work gets tiring sometimes, enough that I don't think I'll ever switch completely because sometimes it's nice to just install and play.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Maybe you're going for more esoteric titles, or maybe some with invasive anti-cheat software, but just to add another, opposing point, I haven't had much trouble since switching to Kubuntu.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

How many times did you open terminal up to get a game working?

If it’s more than zero then it isn’t user friendly or accessible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I mainly play indie titles, but actually zero times so far. Steam really does everything for you nowadays

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I said not much trouble, not no trouble, but that being said, zero times. Issues I've encountered have not been related to getting a game running.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Zero. Everything is done though Steam.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

average Lemmy conversion lol