• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    Oh no! It doesn’t work on a platform that’s used by… let me check… 1.44% of Steam’s userbase!

    Get over it, Linux users don’t represent a big enough base to bother, that’s it, that’s all.

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      Okay but like, you asked why people don’t like Epic Store, then told them to get over it… now you see why people don’t like Epic Store bootlickers either

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        It’s public data… It has increased 0.4% in a year and was going down from 2014 to 2018. Heck, is only 0.3% higher than in 2014!

        Now, how much work and money did it require to get that 1.44% and how many of them are people that wouldn’t have otherwise installed Steam on a Windows partition?

        https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam

        No, Linux support is not worth the trouble, nor is OSX support, except to be the only platform to cater to that market.

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          Totally. Let’s just stick with our corporate overlords. Market share can’t be changed by people making better decisions.

          Edit: also, “market share” in the context of FOSS is pretty silly. For all we know, most Linux users spoof the user agent.

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            For all we know, most Linux users spoof the user agent.

            Really? That’s the argument you’re going for?

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          Yes Linux support is not worth the trouble until you see the Epic Games launche is a CEF, that is literally a web app running in a browser and hear me out CEF is designed to be cross-platform.

          The only thing they should do is ship the app for linux and maybe add a proton menu in the settings and that’s it! Valve as done most of the work for them.