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yellowapple on Jan 24, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ending Support for macOS and Linux

> dealing with packaging that can deal with differences in distros, systems, and drivers

"Differences in distros" is easy to fix: only target one distro (e.g. Ubuntu), and let users of other distros figure it out on their own. This has worked well for Steam's Linux ecosystem.

Dealing with "systems and drivers" is the exact same problem as exists on Windows.

Arelius on Jan 25, 2020 [–]

> Dealing with "systems and drivers" is the exact same problem as exists on Windows.

I'll give you that regarding drivers, except the Windows market is significant enough to make the economics work out more favorably.

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