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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Linux users are not your audience. Owners of the Steam Deck are. I'd wager the vast majority of Deck users do not have a computer that runs Linux. You don't really need to know how to do anything in Linux even in desktop mode. The environment is so similar to mac and windows for most tasks.

He's just pissy about the idea of designing anything that would benefit Steam; the heavyweight he has tried and failed to emulate.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Sweeney generally has a hate boner for Linux. It's nothing really new.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

And it represents so few people that the investment isn't worth it, especially as most of them have a hate boner for Epic.