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Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says tech leaders are 'pretending to be Republicans' to gain favor with Trump, skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately 'rip off consumers and crush competitors' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago

Acting like gamers suddenly care about Linux is a bold strategy. Valve has been going SteamOS when they began considering releasing their own consoles. Wanna compare the statistics of Steam gamers playing on Linux versus other platforms? Incidentally, you basically still have to jailbreak out of their cushy covers to play Linux games outside of their library in their consoles. This is better than what SEGA and Nintendo has done, but it is still tied to a profit incentive.

Their platform is anything but simple. Anytime I want to play a game, I get bombarded with community features I don't want that attempt to tie a portion of that game's community to their platform. Buying games literally rewards me with bullshit points to try to tie me to their platform's community "features". Valve has plenty of games within its library that has kernel level protection, but yes, they aren't going to be pushing it if they have to rely on Linux for their console OS.