Quote Originally Posted by HereInPlainSight View Post
No one is realistically asking for devs to target Linux as a whole. People are asking them not to hose Proton compatibility, which is a much more stable -- and more importantly, static -- target.



I love how you effectively just said 'stop trying to play games on the Steam Deck,' which is, by design, made to play games on Linux, made by the largest distribution platform of PC games around. Nice. Makes you sound like you're really here with a good faith argument.

In other news -- the game itself works great in Linux. Solid performance. The new launcher's a cludge of outdated technology and the game already packs CEF into every install, which lets Linux run the old launcher just fine. (I'm pretty sure the default installation via Steam still activates the old launcher for compatibility, even.) Just allow Steam users to opt out of this change and there's no problem -- not for Linux users or for Windows users who don't want to have to launch through Steam, for any one of a number of reasons people have been outlining in the other thread. Square will have done its due diligence in trying to honor contracts with Valve while still allowing users to have the final say in whether or not they want this particular brand of security.
lol steamdeck will bomb like every other hardware attempt Valve makes. Linux is not and never will be a gaming OS despite valves attempts to make it so. It accounts for 1% of steams population yet more than half the support tickets for developers that support linux are from linux users because of how unintuitive and how much jank you have to do to get a game to run on linux. Linux is and always will be a dev tool for IT and nothing else. It will never be good for gaming and it will never be good as a daily driver for your every day user.