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The problem will only get solved if there will be reliable methods for detecting cheats that don't require direct ingeration in a client operating system directly.

2 year old article. Stupid comment. Low key true but still stupid.

Linux is ‘a terrifically hard audience to serve’

said owner of a company that last tried to oficially support Linux in late '90s.

I mean... I don't really disagree in this specific context.

I assume Fortnite has kernel level/rootkit anti-cheat. And Epic make massive amounts of cash from all the goku skins people buy. Unless they have the resources to test at least the major distros and keep aware of possible hacks/bypasses on that side it is just begging for exploits. And it is big enough that the moment one is identified EVERYBODY is grabbing an ubuntu live CD to get some goku dollars.

I still think it is shit that they don't directly support Linux with the EGS (especially since they distribute Unreal Engine and marketplace stuff via that). But for their "more revenue than the GDP of a small nation" live game? I get it.

A buddy who works on one of the popular live games made the comparison to pokemon cards. Everyone thinks it is a great idea to show them off at school. Until the kid trips, they get scattered on the floor, and it is a god damned feeding frenzy of every single kid losing their minds to scramble and fight over that dog eared pikachu card.

Tim Sweeney doesn't work hard.

Just an FYI: This article is 2 years old. Not saying anything has changed or not.

This is a 2 and a half (almost) year old article. I figured Tim's thoughts on this were common knowledge at this point?

Good old Tim never misses an opportunity to tell Linux users about his nonsense dated opinions

Oh noes! The customers won't happily swallow whatever bullshit we shove down their throats! Oh the humanity!

This is incredibly short-sighted. Having your business model hitched to a single vendor is just asking to screwed by whatever walled garden that vendor puts up. There's a reason Valve is pushing Linux.

A terrifically hard audience to serve given the variety of incompatible configurations.

If your game doesn't work with my fully functional operating system (while others do), isn't it literally your game that's "incompatible?"

The wording in the tweet in the article is a little less bombastic. He's concerned about maintaining anti-cheat for custom kernels and other Linux-exclusive issues at the scale that Fortnite runs at. Given how large the audience for that game is and the age range (which has a lot more time to dedicate) I can see how that would be a costly endeavor and look at TF2 right now as an example of what happens if you fail to do so. Combine that with the much smaller footprint of the Linux base (which is changing!) and thus, less incentive to tackle any of that in the first place.

Maybe I'm just trying to not read ill intent, but I see "Linux gamers are a hard audience to serve" as "You guys use an OS focused on freedom and customization, which means it's literally harder to serve you all effectively" and not as "Linux gamers are mean".

Adding that extra file that takes care of everything related for anti cheat must be quite difficult for such a small team. /s

He can go fuck himself with a 6" railroad spike.

At least Gaben is pushing the Linux gaming community forward!

Well yeah…. They’re clearly developmentally challenged at Epic. In every sense of the word. I’m not exactly surprised that a platform still lacking basic functionality that should’ve been there on day one, has trouble figuring out Linux.

Not that I give a crap about Fortnite, but what an asshole.

This is why I don't give Epic and any exclusives on it's store any money. I know 0% of it is going back into making linux gaming better.