Comment on Today’s layoffs (Epic Games official post)

thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Saprophyte@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Exactly this. Half of the videos I see about switching to Linux, even if I have never heard the content creator so much as mention fortnite, claim it’s a reason you shouldn’t switch to Linux.

  Well, you can’t run this one shitty program popular with twelve year olds so rife with cheating they need kernel level control of your shitty OS to combat it, so no freedom from corporate tyranny for you!

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  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s even playable on the phone, so they would not lose complete access to the game. Unless you are really invested into it, it does not matter on what you play. I have a Xbox, so when I wanted to play Fortnite, i would rather play on console than installing Windows on my computer.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How can they have it functional in android but not Linux? That seems counterintuitive to me

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      • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s all about anticheat support. The game would likely run on a Linux desktop, but Epic chose not to support Linux devices. They officially said (I have no source to link to it at hand) that they don’t believe the anti cheat would work well in Linux, because it lacks root access. On Android on the other hand they have a better sandbox and control. But most importantly, on Android they have a wider audience and that is basically all it counts for them. Epic CEO Tim said, if the Steam Deck gets sold enough, they will consider it.

        I’m just listing what has been said, not sharing their same opinion.

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