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Epic Games Names SteamOS Among Planned Linux Targets for Its New Launcher (www.techpowerup.com)
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[–] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Unreal engine (like idtech) has always had linux support. It's just individual companies and games not bothering.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Yep, Epic has a lot of faults but I remember the first game I played on Linux was UT2k4. I don’t think I played another game on Linux until two decades later.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago

    UT2k3 (maybe 2004 as well) actually came with a bootable Linux disc that would boot directly into the game. So they basically had an Epic OS long before Valve even thought about SteamOS.

    Maybe Tim was always so anti Linux because it didn't pan out back then.

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