With the July Steam survey clearing the 4% desktop mark, corporate tech is finally starting to look our way. GOG, Epic, and NVIDIA are pushing native or Flatpak tools, and even EA is rumbling about Proton anti-cheat support.

It’s easy to get excited, but let’s be real, a few corporate launchers and job listings aren’t a victory. Valve and the open-source community did all the heavy lifting to get us here; big tech is only showing up now because the numbers are too big to ignore. Still, it’s a fascinating milestone.

Thoughts on whether we’ll ever see real movement on the anti-cheat front, or are we always going to be locked out of the big multiplayer titles?

  • onlinepersona@programming.dev
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    7 hours ago

    It will keep climbing because macs aren’t for gaming and Microslop just hates its users. Any gamer that can bang together 2 braincells understands that they have to move to Linux in the long run. And if they are still a singlecelled organism, they will learn about cell division when the time comes to evolve.