SteamOS is now officially on the list of Linux distributions Epic Games plans to support with its new Epic Games Launcher. In a statement to GamingOnLinux, Epic communications director Jake Jones said the launcher is still in Preview, and that Epic plans to "support as many Linux distributions as...
The level of cuckness and chadness on display is amazing.
The cuck epic : We need to be able to put our storefront on our competitors operating system, if they’ll let us please have some sales on the PC market ;_;
The chad valve : yeah, we don’t care if our competitor’s storefront is our systems, they don’t really take any business from us anyway, and if the customer wants to, they can do what they want with their computers.
“We’ll bring our games to Linux! Using Proton, made by Valve”
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to reiterate another post though, Unreal Engine has always had a linux port, it’s just actual devs/businesses not bothering.
You can already run the EGS on a deck via Heroic. Anyone remotely interested in this is already doing it.
That’s also why they chose not to subsidize their hardware prices. You can buy their hardware and do whatever the hell you want with it, including not use Steam.
Another genius move by Valve. I would never have purchased
If I couldn’t rip the Big Picture mode out and fuck with the underlying linux OS.
Hell, I brought my original Steam Deck on a work thing instead of my work laptop because it worked so well (including with an external monitor).
Hell yeah. I’m pretty locked into the Steam ecosystem myself and finally got the Frame purchase email last Friday. I’m hella excited.
I never played half life Alyx, and omg, it’s great. You can crush cans by just squeezing.
I can’t believe nobody else has made a VR game like this.