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>>Sporkt+(OP)
Steam gets all my gaming budget, as I really try to stick to Linux.

If it ain't on steam, I don't play it, and they don't get my money.

>>mkatx+I9
It’s sad to me that you and many others have this opinion, which is fine, but Valve takes a significant tax from small companies while gamers, a cheap demographic, complain about the price of games.

Games don’t need to be on Steam to be good.

>>andrew+Gb
The issue kinda is on Linux we’re playing windows games. There is significant work done by valve on that proton compatability layer, so a lot of people on Linux want to support that. Without that us Linux users have a lot harder time gaming.

There are some other launchers for epic games and gog (heroic game launcher I’ve used). It worked for me for a the couple games I tried (gloomhaven and disco elysium) but I’m using the proton wine I which I think was put out there by valve/steam.

>>acomje+yh
I would never support Epic as Sweeney is openly hostile towards Linux.

>>happym+yo
Who is "Sweeney" and how is he hostile towards Linux?

>>Brothe+hL3
Tim Sweeney.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Sweeney_(game_developer)

Founder and CEO of Epic games.

He has a history of whinging about Windows, and when suggestions of supporting Linux come up, since it's what Valve is doing to ensure they aren't trapped in a mono-system, Tim is argumentative in a bad faith way.

Previous discussions about Epics anti-Linux behaviour, but unfortunately the Tweets have since been deleted.

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