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raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Linux users: Gaming on Linux is great, with Proton we don’t even care if a game isn’t developed for Linux specifically!

  Also Linux users: You’re not developing a Linux version, I don’t give a crap about your game.

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  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My point is Windows is an ecosystem enabling totalitarian regimes and exposes all user privacy to corporations. Developing anything for Windows-only strengthens that ecosystem and is thereby anti-humanity, antidemocratic and just overall an awful decision.

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    • Deconceptualist@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t disagree with you. But don’t you think there’s a component of it that’s like, “Hey I want to both 1) release a game and 2) put food on table”? Since 99% of players are on Windows, actually doing both kind of necessitates building for Windows first.

      As Linux gamers I think we should keep going in the direction we’ve been and making it easier and easier for devs to port to Linux or run their games through Proton and so forth. It’s been amazing and my time as a player has been so good in the last couple years. If we keep showing that, more players will come over and the userbase will grow. I’ve heard from plenty of others who have ditched Windows, because gaming was their last holdout.

      The big AAA publishers aren’t struggling for basic needs. We can make demands of them. But the small inside devs? Help 'em out where you can.

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      • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It used to be a legitimate choice to publish for Windows. Even when Microsoft started trying to force every private file into the cloud, I wouldn’t have chosen such drastic words. But with the fall of the divided states of america to an authoritarian regime of rapist / pedo billionaires, if you still develop for Windows, where do you draw the line? Gas chambers? And my objection to Windows is not because of Microsoft. It’s because of being the government system, that the totalitarian government has its hands on all kinds of backdoors and will use them to sabotage democracies whereever they can.

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    • AngryishHumanoid@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because of Proton and also how shit can just break on Linux (see the current glibc fiasco), it might be better to have just a Windows version.

    I when I play a game, I don’t even notice if it’s Linux native unless the game specifically tells me it’s a Linux build.

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  • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wow, it’s almost like there might be people with different opinions that use Linux and Linux users aren’t a single hivemind.

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• RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I played the demo on linux and it ran without any problems

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  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    see my other comment

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    • RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Its possible to link to specific comments on lemmy

      In this case its not important since there are little comments, but it leaves no space for confusion and is easy(especially considering you copied the text for another reply)

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• refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve been a Linux user for over a decade. Do you just not know that Proton and WINE exist?

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  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    see my other comment

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