Good, it will continue to not be played at my house.
So the upcoming Xbox console is Windows on Arm.
That sounds significantly harder than supporting Steam Deck users but OK Epic
This totally invalidates their argument “Linux isn’t big enough to care about”. I highly doubt there are more Windows Arm gamers than Linux gamers.
They won’t or can’t get their anti-cheat/DRM in as a kernel module. Would you trust that bunch of fucks to not screw something up terribly by trying to pop in something like that?
So what’s so bad if it’s kernel level?
It is a potential security risk to the system and enables extremely intrusive control and surveillance.
It’s basically a rootkit.
They can’t even effectively prevent cheaters so I’m always suspicious what the real intent of these rootkits.
Yikes. I did not know that. I’m a Linux user but when it comes to talking about kernel stuff I’m like “what?”
Tldr kernel access is bad.
You have a great personal reference point for this; you use Linux, and when have you ever needed kernel access regularly?
What conceivable reason could a game dev have for wanting access to that?
How could having that access be detrimental to your machines security?
It means they expect Windows on ARM to get bigger.
If that’s the case they should not say stuff like “oh we would totally support Linux if the Steam Deck would have sold 10 million copies, the userbase is just too small now” but then proceed to support ARM which has a much smaller userbase still while there’s not even a guarantee it will outgrow Linux in the near future. Just quit the BS and say you’ll never want to support Linux.
Good thing I don’t care about Fortnite and never ever buy games on Epic!
Same, except for Rocket League but i bought it before Epic aquired it and turned it into a f2p cash grab.
Looks up from single player game, goes back to playing
Too bad that they’re missing profits by not enabling EAC support for linux.
EAC does support Linux and there’s games out there using it. It’s the kernel level stuff that won’t work because Linux refuses to support it, a decision I completely agree with. I don’t want arshole game developers fucking around in my kernel.
