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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney was asked by Verge why there is no support for the Steam Deck for Fortnite (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (2 children)

So supporting Linux means they need to test on at least all currently maintained versions of maybe the top 20 or so distros

It absolutely does not mean that.

Pick a steam deck, support a steam deck, 3 major releases. If the SD runs on enterprise Linux that's a 10 year support window.

That's a perfectly viable plan - much like "releasing on x box" - and with an understandable market clearly delineated. Everything else can be "hey try, but don't call us" and we'd all still try.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

This is a really good idea--they officially support the steam deck, and that means it's unofficially supported on other Linux distros. The community gets what it wants without a huge extra load on Epic.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 8 months ago

Honestly, I'd just test on Steam Deck (performance, recent libs) and Debian (desktop experience, older libs) and that's it.

They also need to fix any exploits they find, which means they probably need Linux devs.