@[email protected] to Linux [email protected]English • 2 days agoApex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linuxwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square127arrow-up1396arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1395arrow-down1external-linkApex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linuxwww.theverge.com@[email protected] to Linux [email protected]English • 2 days agomessage-square127cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
minus-squarebitwolflinkfedilinkEnglish17•11 hours agoSomeone did the math on Twitter. There is about 2900 Linux gamers playing Apex. So even if 100% of Linux gamers cheated it could in no way be the majority. What I think happened is the dev team struggled to solve the problem so they used Linux as a scapegoat when leadership came down on them.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•10 hours agoThis sounds likely. Unfortunately, when the problem doesn’t go away a few months from now, it’s not like they’ll reenable Linux support…
Someone did the math on Twitter.
There is about 2900 Linux gamers playing Apex.
So even if 100% of Linux gamers cheated it could in no way be the majority.
What I think happened is the dev team struggled to solve the problem so they used Linux as a scapegoat when leadership came down on them.
This sounds likely. Unfortunately, when the problem doesn’t go away a few months from now, it’s not like they’ll reenable Linux support…