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Baldur's Gate 3 now has a native Linux build (bsky.app)
submitted 4 days ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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The store page hasn't updated yet, but you can see the Linux Steam depots on steamdb.

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[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (3 children)

That is to be expected. Which Linux should they support? Steam Deck is ok, it's stable, new and popular. Arch? No way. Ubuntu? Yeah, no. Any other "gaming distro" some dudes built? Who would want to support that?

So what is Linux you want companies to support?

I use Arch btw.

[–] piexil@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You don't have to support any specific Linux, valve provides all the necessary runtimes

https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steamrt/-/blob/steamrt/scout/README.md

[–] ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

But isn't the steam deck Arch as well? So I wonder if there's still a difference where they support just the deck specific specs...

But if it's a Linux native build, and the deck is arch, it would stand to reason that you could at least get the build on arch. Maybe they're doing a check against the uname or something to verify what you're running.

[–] missingno@fedia.io 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Support doesn't have to be based on a specific distro. It isn't for any of the other ports that support us.

[–] bobzer@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When you promise support, you have to take responsibility when it doesn't work.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You can promise support for ’xyz’ distro and advertise that which is what Larian is doing however, if they said they supported Debian for example than that would open a whole can of issues as a lot of distributions are Debian based.

Would be nice to have Debian and Arch be the foundation for Linux based game development and make that the standard throughout all the other distros like SteamOS, LinuxMint or PopOS. Fedora is kinda in their own world I suppose.