Does the existence of Wine compatibility layer discourages the creation of native Linux games?

  • Lime Buzz (fae/she)
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    71 month ago

    Because in some cases developers cannot be bothered to click a single button to make it natively run on linux.

    • Kichae
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      71 month ago

      It’s not about compiling, it’s about testing and support. Each officially supported version needs to be tested - which means having yet another set of test systems sitting around - and supported by the support team. And not only is Linux a splintered market in its own right, making testing and support a significant operation, but there isn’t the same kind of single-point OS support that you get from Microsoft and Apple.