ryujin470 to [email protected] • 1 month agoWhy there are few native Linux games compared to Windows or even Mac?message-square53fedilinkarrow-up141arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up141arrow-down1message-squareWhy there are few native Linux games compared to Windows or even Mac?ryujin470 to [email protected] • 1 month agomessage-square53fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink11•1 month agobecause you can’t just target “linux”. You target a distro. That’s not feasible for any of them to maintain
minus-squareNorah (pup/it/she)linkfedilinkEnglish6•1 month agoThis isn’t entirely true though. Devs could target an AppImage for example.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink11•1 month agoand i have found appimages that fail to worm due to some dependencies too. This is not a solved prooblem for linux. And no, flatpak isn’t it either
minus-squareToes♀linkfedilink5•1 month agoI want to add on to that, flatpak even struggles with native Linux games like left4dead2. (Hardly any mods work)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 month agoyea dependencies seem like a real issue here, I don’t think Linux supports side-by-side versions like Windows does, Windows will just install every version of DirectX and libraries like that
because you can’t just target “linux”. You target a distro. That’s not feasible for any of them to maintain
This isn’t entirely true though. Devs could target an AppImage for example.
and i have found appimages that fail to worm due to some dependencies too. This is not a solved prooblem for linux. And no, flatpak isn’t it either
I want to add on to that, flatpak even struggles with native Linux games like left4dead2. (Hardly any mods work)
yea dependencies seem like a real issue here, I don’t think Linux supports side-by-side versions like Windows does, Windows will just install every version of DirectX and libraries like that
You only need to target the Steam Linux Runtime.