hope ur being ironic cause now it feels like ur drinking the kool aid cause you forgot how to think critically and need to act like master matthew
linux is a healthy part of the os ecosystem and forcing users to buy into ms to game is absolutely dumb and monopolistic.
conan even if i didn't unironically hate linux, the fact is that linux makes up like 2% of all pc uses on this planet and even on steam it makes up 0.19% of all users. a lot of games don't even have mac support and i've never seen anyone outside the mac and linux demographic ever be even the slightest bit upset about it. it was always 'just buy a pc'
epic games isn't necessarily demanding linux users to buy a windows pc, linux users are demanding that epic games launcher be tailed towards linux. ive always been an avid supporter of tailoring products towards your lowest end and smallest demographics and i've received too much flak for it in the past so it doesn't seem fair that this time around i take the flak for the opposite stance. whenever i say "engine designers should design for the lowest optimized system on earth before the highest" i get hit with an immediate "just buy a better pc friend" and on the flipside when someone says "engine designers should design for the lowest optimized system on earth rather than the highest" i hit them with "just buy a better pc friend" and now i'm in the wrong?
opinions aside designing your product for the 1% demographic is very costly. it means you have to make changes that are guaranteed to have no effect on 99% of your end user, but you have to spend the same amount of money designing it as the systems tailored to the 99%. linux support, like mod support or optimization, is either a cheap forethought or an expensive afterthought. once the product is made, if linux support was not part of the initial design, it might never be