ryujin470 ( @ryujin470@fedia.io ) to Gaming · 11 months agoWhy there are few native Linux games compared to Windows or even Mac?message-squaremessage-square56linkfedilinkarrow-up142file-text
arrow-up142message-squareWhy there are few native Linux games compared to Windows or even Mac? ryujin470 ( @ryujin470@fedia.io ) to Gaming · 11 months agomessage-square56linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-square vrighter ( @vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ) linkfedilinkarrow-up11·11 months agobecause you can’t just target “linux”. You target a distro. That’s not feasible for any of them to maintain
minus-square Norah (pup/it/she) ( @princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 months agoThis isn’t entirely true though. Devs could target an AppImage for example.
minus-square vrighter ( @vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ) linkfedilinkarrow-up11·11 months agoand i have found appimages that fail to worm due to some dependencies too. This is not a solved prooblem for linux. And no, flatpak isn’t it either
minus-square Toes♀ ( @Toes@ani.social ) linkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 months agoI want to add on to that, flatpak even struggles with native Linux games like left4dead2. (Hardly any mods work)
minus-square Die4Ever ( @Die4Ever@programming.dev ) linkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoyea dependencies seem like a real issue here, I don’t think Linux supports side-by-side versions like Windows does, Windows will just install every version of DirectX and libraries like that
minus-square missingno ( @missingno@fedia.io ) linkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 months agoYou only need to target the Steam Linux Runtime.
because you can’t just target “linux”. You target a distro. That’s not feasible for any of them to maintain
This isn’t entirely true though. Devs could target an AppImage for example.
and i have found appimages that fail to worm due to some dependencies too. This is not a solved prooblem for linux. And no, flatpak isn’t it either
I want to add on to that, flatpak even struggles with native Linux games like left4dead2. (Hardly any mods work)
yea dependencies seem like a real issue here, I don’t think Linux supports side-by-side versions like Windows does, Windows will just install every version of DirectX and libraries like that
You only need to target the Steam Linux Runtime.