No reason apart from Linux support, workshop, remote play, Steam Input, excellent customer support… You can hate Valve as a corporation all you want, but Steam is objectively the better platform, by a mile.
All things that should and are handled by different companies.
Steam violates Unix philosophy so it should never be on a Linux system.
Even their Wine fork requires the Steam runtime.
Also you know you’re lying when you boast about Steam support.
It can be a store, a launcher, a compatibility later, a discussion board, a social platform, a download host, a game developer, or an input manager but it cannot be all those at once.
Epic isn’t without fault either, they also do more than just Unreal Engine. But no one can argue they are worse/do more than Steam and their Linux support better.
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No reason apart from Linux support, workshop, remote play, Steam Input, excellent customer support… You can hate Valve as a corporation all you want, but Steam is objectively the better platform, by a mile.
>inb4 but on gog you actually own your games
This is false, as stated by their ToS.
GOG isn’t US based at least.
All things that should and are handled by different companies.
Steam violates Unix philosophy so it should never be on a Linux system.
Even their Wine fork requires the Steam runtime.
Also you know you’re lying when you boast about Steam support.
It can be a store, a launcher, a compatibility later, a discussion board, a social platform, a download host, a game developer, or an input manager but it cannot be all those at once.
Epic isn’t without fault either, they also do more than just Unreal Engine. But no one can argue they are worse/do more than Steam and their Linux support better.
Thoughts on systemd?
systemd doesn’t violate the UNIX philosophy. Just like coreutils, it’s a project with many programs with a single responsibility.
Also, the UNIX philosophy isn’t law, and many useful programs do not follow it.
I think you can infer it.