It's also worth highlighting: these aren't a bunch of fancy laptops. One is an almost 10y old retired work laptop (no GPU), another is a newer (4y) work laptop also no dedicated GPU, and the third a hand me down gaming laptop of unknown age. No Windows, no need for brand new hardware

Add in the Apple store & all its restrictions, the hefty cut they take on sales... Steam takes a big cut too, but at least Steam has an interest in seeing games succeed financially, with Apple it's more like I should feel privileged to be allowed in at all & take the abuse

The trouble is Apple's walled garden approach, and Xcode. It's a massive pain cross compiling to and testing on MacOS (any hardware). Top it off with a userbase on Steam that's smaller than Linux and it gets hard making the case to support MacOS at all

oof, if "professionalism" is gatekeeping then society truly is circling the drain 🤦

And for completeness, if anyone is wondering what "steam-linux-builder" is: it's Steam's Linux SDK, but with the rust compiler added so I can create proper builds for Steam targeting their Linux runtime

github.com/coast-wide-s...

Oh, and here's more of my #NoAI reference images - when the view/angle I'm looking for doesn't exist, make a really shitty mockup in Gimp 😆

It's also worth noting that this is designed for a Linux development environment, I honestly can't imagine trying to do software dev in Windows - seems like trying to carve Michelangelo's David using nail trimmers 😂

The hardest to support is actually MacOS, Xcode is a nightmare but it was something I just needed to figure out once - so 1 day lost figuring it out, but now it's documented and the approach will be reusable on future projects so well worth the time invested.

I so often see devs complaining that Linux is too hard, but it really isn't. Avoid M$ specific crap like DirectX, install toolchains to cross compile and it's done. No VM's, no specially build servers. Everything can be built locally at once

Oh I know but it's so easy to support Linux that I've reached a point where my attitude is "do I really want to waste time/money rolling the dice on if this will work" plus give tacit support to the Windows-only gaming culture

I have a growing line of post it notes along the bottom of my monitor, which also serves as my bug tracker 😅 (solodev

For more complex things like creating equations I have random scraps of paper strewn about for the mad scientist effect 🤣

But otherwise I use AnyType

Yeah, immutable is great for certain cases but the best part of Linux is having options - game dev in particular hits a lot of friction on immutable OS's

Regular Fedora is great for both gaming & game dev too, but CachyOS is solid (I had poor performance on older AMD hardware though)

Looks amazing, wishlisted! Disappointing it's Windows only though, I'll keep an eye on this but I don't buy games that don't run in Linux anymore

coming up on 3y since being laid off here, was a senior engineer with 10y experience; it's brutal out there, good luck 🤞

the ghosting, fake jobs, insane hoops to jump through... it really is exhausting

But also, Win11 is worse for gaming across the board, performance is worse as compared to Win10 even. Only games using shitty off the shelf anti cheat solution (EAC) have major problems in Linux due to NT kernel integration (which is bad in all situations)