If only we had more programmers
MFer you just fired like a thousand of them
If only we could fire a couple more of them…
Let’s just take a moment to recognize his struggle to find a few more programmers
Maybe if we pool together and buy just one more pack of gems (or whatever they call them) they can pull off what must surely be a truly Herculean technical feat
What did he meant by The Linux problem?
Eh… “gaslighting 101” – swears randomly (against the victim/target), throws in a (non-random) praise to “raise the fire even more”, refuses to elaborate.
I think he means the whole “Not enough users to justify porting applications, users don’t use it because applications don’t support it” thing.
The problem is that logic has been dead for years. Users are here. The Steam Deck is wildly popular. Tim Sweeney is just a dumbass.
Linux users have too much self respect and expect too much privacy and control over their own devices. That’s a problem.
He means they have a problem with Linux users. What other reason would there be to buy up games and remove native Linux support the second its removed from the steam store? (Rocket League for example)
The Epic Games Store doesn’t have a Linux client, so it’s understandable from a business perspective to not develop a product no new customers will be able to buy.
It’s a middle finger to existing customers though, especially with the outdated Linux version being downloaded by default. They should prioritize proton to enable online play on multiplayer game, but as established, they don’t care about Steam Linux users
Yes, those launchers are great. But I don’t think Epic will ever acknowledge third-party clients exist, so their existence makes no difference from their perspective.
Ofc not. They have shriveled dick syndrome and hate consumer freedom.
He means Linux had sex with his wife and now he’s mad.
Which distro?
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When the operating system you are using has more sex than you.
Fuck Tim Sweeney.
Nvidia in the other castle
Kinda weird when both Unreal Engine and EAC, both owned by Epic, actually already have Linux/Proton support, yet games that exclusive to Epic Store won’t support Linux, or drop Linux support once they become Epic Store exclusives.
Despite how much people hate this dude, which is understandable because he’s only doing this for money, it’s good that Google’s shady practices were brought to light. I do wonder if it’ll actually have an impact. The judge hasn’t spoken yet, correct?
Enemy of your enemy can still be your enemy. It’s unlikely the Google vs Epic case will amount to anything for us personally.
Don’t take any words as truth, from this jerkoff. Tim will do literally anything to avoid giving people what they’re asking for
you’re paying other developers off to convince them not to launch their own stores
lmao says the ceo of the company that pays developers off to launch exclusively on egs
Imagine being the editor of a cross-platform game engine and pretending you don’t have enough developers to port the games you developed for other platforms…
What’s your message here Timmy huh?
“Our game engine is so shitty that even us can’t afford to develop our games on Linux with it”
What a fraud…
Every engine in this generation has the ability to do multibuilds. The networking and security will be the only thing other than that. This is Unreal Engines official Linux documentation so it’s all bullshit. https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/SharingAndReleasing/Linux/GettingStarted/
A good amount of Hollywood film production uses Unreal Engine these days and the same companies let Linux servers render the results.
They literally just need to enable it in the dev page of EAC and Proton handles the reat.
Not having Fortnite sounds more like a feature than a fault.
What a tool. Fortnite generated $6 billion in 2022. He could throw hundreds of programmers just at Linux compatibility and it would still be obscenely profitable.
Tim Sweeney is a fuckin retard.
All it takes is one click in the EAC SDK to support Valve’s Proton. (┛◉Д◉)┛彡┻━┻It’s just Tim Slimy being an absolute jackass
Tim Sweeney is a fuckin retard.
Can we please not belittle the mentally disadvantaged by comparing them to Tim Sweeny?
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Sorry what is EAC?
Easy Anti-Cheat, the anti-cheat that’s literally owned by Epic Games.
Thank you kind sir :)
At this point, they’ve invested more in not supporting Linux. This is after Linux decided to support Fortnite instead.
You surely need many dev to accomplish this horrendous task…
Fortnite uses both EAC and BattleEye, so it really isn’t that easy to integrate with their custom solution. Also, they have to test it to make sure no bugs are introduced. Afterall, it’s a multi-billion USD game.
But as we know, they really don’t care, so even if it was only a day of development time, they wouldn’t do it.
BattlEye also supports Valve Proton. ◉_◉
That’s as easy as messaging BattlEye to enable it.BattlEye is kernel rootkit and is not supported by proton. Guess why.
BattleEye is supported by proton
How? It is kernel-level. There is no windows kernel in proton.
EAC and BattleEye both run a userspace anticheat when used through Proton
fyi you can play fortnite in a single gpu passthrough win10 vm on linux if you configure your vm to hide the hypervisor status.
Yes but then they’d be playing Fortnite
BattlEye still will detect virtualization. At least on intel.
maybe, i have amd.
for ref i used this: https://superuser.com/questions/1387935/hiding-virtual-machine-status-from-guest-operating-system
but i can’t seem to find any posts saying hiding vm doesn’t work with intel and multiple posts about hiding vm status with intel specific instructions on a quick ddg search so you might want to try again.
Reading. There were more, but I can’t find it in english right now. In russian if you know it.
Btw
However, AMD-V enables the hypervisor to disable the cpuid trap,
(All copy-pasted from what I’ve written in the linux_gaming subreddit)
This is the same guy who compared Linux to moving to Canada once, had moved away from PC gaming because of “rampant piracy” only to return back to it because he wanted that sweet, sweet pie of the market Valve had ripened, built the shittiest store imaginable, that was initially literally spyware and took 3 years to get a fucking shopping cart feature, did all these shitty exclusives to keep the said store afloat, instead of you know, trying to improve it? The same guy who allowed shitty creepto games into his store only when Steam had banned them (btw does anyone remember that Epic Shit Store was supposed to be a “highly curated store”)?
And this is the same company who specifically makes sure Fortnite won’t run on Linux because they literally use several anti cheat software, apart from the one they’re literally developing themselves, deliberately to NOT make Linux run it (such confidence on their software amirite :V)? The same company who has (hopefully had) a dumbass developer complaining about Steam Deck “not having Fortnite???” and that’s “fragmenting his library???”.
And there is also the matter of Rocket League, Artstation, Bandcamp, and so many other things.
Epic and Tim Sweeney are the most two-faced scumbags I’ve ever witnessed in my life, and it still fucking hurts me because I’ve loved the Unreal series so goddamn much, man.
In fact, I’m more angry at Heroic and Lutris and co. for allowing games to be installed from that store. Epic shouldn’t get this amount of work done for them for free.
How is bandcamp involved here? I’m curious now
Epic owns Bandcamp.
*Owned. It’s since been sold a couple months ago to a greazy music licensing company, who immediately fired half the staff (120 positions gone).
Oh yeah, forgot about that. Thank for hurting me again as I repressed that memory.
Instead of asking for Linux support maybe we should be asking companies for wine/proton support, since that works for Mac and Linux. Not ideal but probably more realistic and that would solve issues for all the non-windows desktops. I would also imagine it’s less work for the company to just ensure it works on wine, than it is to compile a seperate client for Linux. I don’t know about anti cheat stuff but personally I wouldn’t run a game that wanted that level of access to my system.
