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Epic Games Names SteamOS Among Planned Linux Targets for Its New Launcher (www.techpowerup.com)

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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] zackhow@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago

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.