Aye, I follow you. I honestly couldn't say yay or nay. Might be as easy as switching some libraries out and making a good GUI in Qt/Adwaita/what have you, like what Kagi is doing with Orion. It could be more involved than that too.

my point is, i suppose, that most of the hard work of making a *NIX-version is done (or, at least half-2/3). macOS is BSD with a bunch of proprietary stuff added on by Apple. strip it down, and it's still BSD and works like BSD/UNIX. so, usually getting something to be cross-compatible isn't that difficult-- at least not so bad as porting something directly from Windows.

hehe... but it's certainly a lot easier going from linux > macOS than the other way around. that process is usually a seamless matter of downloading a couple of extra dependancies via homebrew.

I moved from Lutris to Heroic, so would you explain why you moved from Heroic to Faugus?

The ability to apply community patches easily was super handy as well. It made installing games like Dungeon Keeper and Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines extremely simple.

It's now been months since I've successfully got Lutris to even install a game. It practically turned to slop overnight.

Exactly as in the post. I already have Heroic, so who cares

Yeah their native client is a special case. It's actually an unreal engine application that runs chromium to display at least parts of the store.

Installing and running programs is wildly more complicated on Linux than macOS. On macOS there is only one way to do it: a self contained .app bundle. On Linux there are….several incompatible standards. And if you do it a different way than a specific Linux user’s preference, they will loudly complain and tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Even if it works.

Apparently unreal engine may work better in linux now, tho.

Aw hey now, I believe the community can be open-minded about this!

...As long as it's not Snap. 😂

Installing and running programs is wildly more complicated on Linux than macOS

noooot really, and you’re already coming in with a full head of steam.

This is only really true in the strict context of “what can happen in 2026”, and not in the context of if “ what has been historically accomplished up to today, 2026”

The difference? Pretty much 98% if POSIX apps (including the vast amount of pre-steam gaming, and a lot of current steam games), so don’t let this bitter bitch try to convince you otherwise.

@ayyy, you can complain all you like about how you don’t understand how macOS works or how it is similar and to LINUX and UNIX, but do it somewhere else that doesn’t waste the rest of our time. The rest of us are trying to come together to solve a problem. It’s clear that your only interest is in driving everyone apart, and that doesn’t solve problems. It just creates them.

And no one here is interested in that bullshit

We just had to wait for windows to get too shitty for average gamer

am i just too horny or is that a penguin with tiddies

Epic Games as in Tim Sweeney's Epic Games?

What are the package names so I can block them from installing please

I’m speaking from personal experience. What you and I want and actual reality are two different things. Your belligerent complaining is exactly what I was talking about, and it took less than half an hour for it to happen.

What happened?

What do you imagine just happened? The fulfillment of some fantasy imagined?

Lol

“I can’t work in fast food all my life”

Edit: let dump the pretense shall we?

State your position and your argument, and we’ll go from there. And I’m happy to dump the belligerence and the assumed contemptuousness.

The facts assume no emotion

lmao yep, you’re definitely not being extremely belligerent over nothing just like I was talking about. 👍

They’ll probably do it similar to what steam does. Steam has learnt a lot there over the years. It’s definitely a pro if it can be easily repackaged, paths configured and they follow the desktop standards, but it will also work without. People will certainly complain if they have to fix stuff themselves

The year of the linux steam deck

Certainly the most concise defense of a position I’ve ever heard, although undeservedly the weakest

Oh, buddy… Way to drop the ball…

Not gonna even slap him in the face about Chinese slave factory workers? Children killing themselves?

Nothing?

Wow…

What are you even talking about? What does this have to do with installations on Linux? Or are you just riffing off of their belligerent unhinged replies as a bit?

Ouch, really? That’s the best you can do?

Bazinga!

(I’m from Mars, so this a fresh and current reference!)

Says the guy who comes on needlessly strong and then has nothing.

EGS has some integration with UE so if you're buying marketplace assets it's easy to keep them updated and to add them to projects. Since UE can compile to Linux if you're running Linux, this is a move that makes Linux a more appealing OS for game development.

Sure, it's all stuff you can do manually. But the sweeter you make the pot the more regular users you attract to your OS.

What is the benefit of attracting more regular users to an OS?

But while windows has that grip, more malware and scams will target windows users. I'm getting tired of seeing good things ruined by their own success.

What... I am not sure if it's serious but it is a game controller.

I'm not interested in Epic's malware. Nor will I install a Linux version of GOG. I don't want that proprietary trash.

It's wild that Sweeney would let this happen. He's been pretty vocally anti-linux in the past. Must be a big enough change to make him consider Linux dollars worth chasing.

Let me guess. Their kernel malware is going to come to Linux next?

Better software support??? There's stuff I'm still struggling to replace and I'd rather native linux builds than have to go back for it.

It's because giving away 36a463 games didn't work...

Oh no... It's stupid 😞

So, you never heard of Apple?

Consider this a capitulation

sudo -y eat-me

They want that fortnite steam machine money

👍

If we have things like Heroic on Linux, and if they are just bringing the Epic Game Store only and not the anti cheat, then who cares. Nothing has really changed then, as we were always able to play all non-online games from our Epic libraries anyways.

Plus you can bet your ass that the new and official EGS app will have SO MANY issues when that is released. It was a mess (still kinda is) even on Windows. So many bugs. I wouldn't be surprised if many Linux users will just continue using the alternatives for the smaller resources it takes up.

Make shitty port of shitty software => People don't use shitty port => Shitty promoter blames the platform

This will only lead to Sweeny saying 'told you so' about Linux is not a gaming platform.

I get that Sweeny doesn't like to gargle Gabe's billionaire balls as much as a lot of the users here, but Epic officially supporting Linux is a good thing.

Windows no longer being the dominant OS.

You forgot telemetry 🤗

Just means more and better support for Linux going forward. This is a good thing.

Yep, this is exactly it.

Oh yes that's a given!

The concept suffers a little bit with graphical applications. They don't exactly have equivalents to stdin, stdout and stderr which you could pipe or read/write willy-nilly.

RetroArch isn't far off from the philosophy I think, those emulation cores are pretty much independent projects plugged into a frontend. Unfortunately that default frontend is pretty clunky and doesn't come with sane defaults for known ROMs. Or even sane menu navigation tbh, main menu and game menu looked way too similar last time I used it…

Thanks for the update, so at least he doesn't hide it anymore. I wouldn't call that "reversing his stance on AI" though, he didn't say he'd stop using the slop cannon. Just that he doesn't hide it anymore, which quite frankly is the absolute bare minimum.

Another commenter just made me aware that the maintainer moved back on his hiding of Claude (because it "apparently is a big deal"… yeah, what tipped you off Sherlock?), which is good. But it's still being used, so… still bad.

Does getting ones balls gargled actually feel any good?