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> EGS will never have a Linux build

This feels like a strange thing since the Epic engine is available on Linux (I used it for dev just a couple of months ago).

I am not disputing the statement, the op makes a good case for atleast Tim being quite anti-Linux. I just feels really weird that the game store wouldn't ever get to a platform the engine is already on. It feels short sighted by Epic. Or I guess it just isn't worth the investment...

>>olodus+(OP)
EGS itself is an Electron garbage. The whole reason to use Electron garbage is to build cross-platform crapware on the cheap.

>>LeoNat+sA
In my experience this is just an excuse. The developers still have to produce builds for linux and test them and even though this is very easy, they just don't do it.

>>LeoNat+sA
Interestingly enough, although steam does support linux and isn't an electron garbage, it's going to become one soon.

>>earenn+CD
It might as well be electron since they probably use a chromium/webkit fork to run the storeview and it's an increbile memory hog already. By going electron route atleast maintainance will be easier for them.

>>xfer+WI
Not exactly. They had an embedded WebKit, but the UI itself wasn’t Electron garbage.

>>imtrin+1D
Indeed. Using Electron is always a lazy excuse, but developers keep making the excuses, so we should hold them accountable.

>>LeoNat+NL
It's embedded CEF, fyi. And I'm fairly certain the new friends UI (which is built using a web stack) isn't Electron, but still just leveraging their existing CEF implementation.

Valve also use HTML/CSS (or some form of it) for their game UIs using Panorama, but this doesn't use any form of web browser from my knowledge.

>>arriva+VN
Ah yes, mixed up my techs. I meant embedded Chromium, not WebKit.

>>LeoNat+sA
> The whole reason to use Electron garbage is to build cross-platform crapware on the cheap.

Indeed.

I feel like Electron encourages bad practice by allowing the developer to avoid the work of learning to write a native desktop app in favour of offloading the trade-offs of this decision onto their end-users in the form of poorly performing, bloated crap.