Epic Games recently did an AMA (Ask me anything) in the community Discord server, confirming that a Linux / SteamOS version of the Epic Games Store is coming.

I really don’t like Epic personally, but this is still pretty huge. Linux and SteamOS have come a long way. CEO Tim Sweeney has always been very negative towards the idea of Linux support, so Epic changing that stance would suggest that Linux/SteamOS has finally become too big of a market to ignore.

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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    3 hours ago

    On a personal level, I also don’t like Epic and Tim Sweeney, but recognize how important this is of a change. Tim said in the past they don’t care bout the Steam Deck, because it is not selling well. They will care if it is selling in the tens of millions. (I can’t link to the original Twitter/X post, so I rely on correct quoting from other places.)

    “If we only had a few more programmers. It’s the Linux problem. I love the Steam Deck hardware. Valve has done an amazing job there; I wish they would get to tens of millions of users, at which point it would actually make sense to support it.”

    - Tim Sweeney