- Zyratoxx ( @zyratoxx@lemm.ee ) 119•10 months ago
Let’s face it. Dude is just finding excuses left right and center. One time they said it was because “easy kernel modification could lead to cheating” this time it’s because of “staff shortage” and next time it’s because the planets aren’t aligned.
When they announced EAC to be compatible with Linux they literally said " … developers can activate anti-cheat support for Linux via Wine or Proton with just a few clicks in the Epic Online Services Developer Portal." (Source) and they know that the Linux community would likely tinker their way to get it working if they were to allow Wine/Proton on EAC…
- loops ( @loops@beehaw.org ) English72•10 months ago
At this point, I think the only reason a game wouldn’t work on Linux is because of the developers political views.
- Smorty [she/her] ( @Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 14•10 months ago
What part about political views would make them not support GNU/Linux?
- Silejonu ( @Silejonu@kbin.social ) 81•10 months ago
The part where they say that using Linux instead of Windows is like leaving the US for Canada when Trump gets elected, and apparently it’s bad because it means you don’t help improve things for Windows (lol).
I know it sounds just like a joke, but it isn’t. Tim Sweeney is really such a moron. Source: https://twitter.com/timsweeneyepic/status/964284402741149698
- ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє ( @SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org ) 30•10 months ago
Wow. This is one of the stupidest takes I’ve ever seen.
- Smorty [she/her] ( @Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 19•10 months ago
Poor windows, they really need all the support they can get 😢
- I Cast Fist ( @ICastFist@programming.dev ) 15•10 months ago
For those like me, who don’t have xitter account but want to see the whole thing:
- BirdyBoogleBop ( @BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 6•10 months ago
Didn’t that actually happen though? Not a massive exodus but loads of people actually did/tried to leave.
- averyminya ( @averyminya@beehaw.org ) 2•10 months ago
It’s not about it happening, it’s about the results of those who leave.
Basically, if in the U.S. voters leave to another country based on a political choice, they are now removing their political choice meaning any dissent there may have been is now gone.
So, with Linux being like Canada, Windows refugees are removing any option of OS improvement for Windows.
- setVeryLoud(true); ( @isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ) 6•10 months ago
That’s a stupid take because people don’t have the right to vote on the future of Windows, it’s a Microsoft dictatorship.
- averyminya ( @averyminya@beehaw.org ) 3•10 months ago
I didn’t say I believed it! Lol
- anti-idpol action ( @pkill@programming.dev ) 17•10 months ago
the twisted idea of extreme proprietarianism, which we’ll combat with free software extremism!
- Smorty [she/her] ( @Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 10•10 months ago
Now that’s a movement I can get behind! Go FOSS!
- ElectroLisa ( @ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 41•10 months ago
iirc Fortnite uses EAC and BattlEye. Both of those ACs do work on the Steam Deck, they just choose not to whitelist it
- Hugucinogens ( @Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 26•10 months ago
Employee layoffs have nothing to do with the work a company has/intends to do.
A great video by Moon Channel, explains this and other things, about how the layoffs are 100% performative, to appease investors, in a literally manufactured hype cycle.
I personally think that the same goes for
100%150% of all public statements these companies and their leaders make.They don’t make sense, because they don’t have to. They’re not meant for you.
- TheDankHold ( @TheDankHold@kbin.social ) 44•10 months ago
This is off topic, but threatening the livelihood of hundreds of people to jerk off some investor douches who don’t give a shit about the actual medium is peak sociopathic capitalism.
- Muffi ( @Muffi@programming.dev ) 3•10 months ago
“sociopathic capitalism” is a bit pleonastic
- maymay ( @maymay@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 17•10 months ago
Think of the shareholders
- Crow ( @Crow@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 15•10 months ago
From what I heard there’s just a toggle allowProton that’s set to false, but that’s wonky Info I have there. However, tim Fortnite said that Linux is like Canada
- setVeryLoud(true); ( @isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ) 4•10 months ago
He has a girlfriend that goes to a school there?
- CaptnNMorgan ( @CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com ) 1•10 months ago
It freezes your bank account if it doesn’t agree with you politically?
- spudwart ( @spudwart@spudwart.com ) English15•10 months ago
They mean programmers that will work for $7.25/hr.
- Damage ( @Damage@slrpnk.net ) 14•10 months ago
Yeah fuck him and fuck Epic
- Tischkante ( @Tischkante@discuss.tchncs.de ) 9•10 months ago
No no they meant programmers working for free…
- kingthrillgore ( @KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ) 9•10 months ago
If Valve was run like any other company they would just shit out a Fortnite clone and then slamfire 30% of the employees, but Valve doesn’t have the shareholder obligations that Epic has.
I’m in no rush to play Fortnite and its really not because of Epic’s attitude, it doesn’t help, but i’m not their audience.
- Holzkohlen ( @Holzkohlen@feddit.de ) 6•10 months ago
Why would capitalism do this to me?