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>>Jerry2+(OP)
All 10 Linux gamers howled in rage at this news...

If there was a market for Linux games Epic wouldn't have pulled Linux support. There is no money in Linux gaming, so many companies have started to pull back on supporting Linux after years of experimenting.

>>gamblo+jo
Slightly, but only slightly exaggerated. It's not cost-effective to support a platform with such small user-base, especially when it is a crapshoot of specs on the order of 90s PC gaming.

Probably much simpler just to make a solid Windows build that plays nicely with WINE.

>>throwe+us
The Steam hardware survey doesn't really support your claims about Linux hardware specs vs Windows: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

Let alone MacOS, which is more supported than Linux but has comparatively much poorer hardware stats.

>>likecl+gy
According to your link, 0.81% of Steam users are running Linux. And they're spread out over a number of distributions, with the largest share at 0.20% for Ubuntu 18.04. Seems to support the claim that it's a very small and fragmented user base.

>>jonas2+EA
The post you replied to is about hardware specs, not the size of the user base.

>>Dylan1+dJ
Which is filled with broken driver experiences, and a pleothora of distributions.

>>pjmlp+LK
It wouldn't be that hard to put a couple developers of each major distro around a table then have them decide that when the user installs say the gaming_mode package, a well defined and standardized set of kernel+libraries+devices gets installed/created along with a new Grub boot option should that conflict with current versions.

>>square+6P
It would work as easy as having a desktop_mode, audio_mode package, .... /s

In case you missed it, that was the point of Steam Machines, and the respective distribution.

A mere 1% of Valve customers.