Quote Originally Posted by Kaosuran View Post
I honestly don't get what's your problem, all you can say is `linux is unsupported, go away` - nothing clever, nor new, comes from you, nothing that would help anyone, except your ego.

All you did thus far was going into a topic, that doesn't even concern you in any way mind you, and cry like little babies that linux users are hackers are should not get any support from SE.
If you're talking about my posts, your reading comprehension is poor. My own words have been on the theme that "Linux is unsupported, and there are developers out there working on a fix. If you want SE to support Steam Deck and Linux in general, you need to present a financial case for them to do so."

True, I did respond to someone who appears to believe that Linux user subscriptions were in the neighborhood of $2-4 million dollars a month based on numbers that made no sense. I dislike guesstimates that are not based on anything except "what I heard/read somewhere" rather than actual financial statements. If someone had said "FFXIV is the only money-maker for Square Enix", without any Linux context, I'd say the same thing.

As far as Linux as the basic OS for the desktop, I abandoned that line of thinking over 20 years ago. The fact was that most games are written for consoles or the PC, and there are relatively few games I've seen over the years that work on Linux natively.

I was playing with MINIX on an Atari ST back in the 1980s, well before Linus took a look at Tanenbaum's work, recreated it from scratch and released the first iteration of Linux back in 1991. I have spent the last 35 years working professionally with numerous iterations of UNIX and LINUX.

I admire those hardy individuals who've decided that they're willing to accept the fact that Linux is not a commercial gaming system and work on playing PC games anyway. But I draw the line at anyone complaining that a gaming company somehow messed them over by making a decision before the launch of an expansion that means they have to do some more programming.