This is a really boring direction of conversation. It’s boring to talk about the false equivalency regarding a decade old OS that the OS maker themselves don’t support vs Linux today. It’s boring to debate the finer points of continuing support in games. It’s boring to talk about Epic outsourcing work to Proton.

But I really hope you find someone that finds it interesting. Good luck.

Sure. But in the context of Epic claiming that Google is a bad guy for telling Epic to pound sand, Epic telling video game owners who have owned a game for years to get fucked is a bad look.

I was a heavy Rocket League player on Windows and I quit when Epic told Linux users to get bent and I won’t use their game store. Epic knew it would piss off a small but vocal minority and they considered it a cost of doing business. Good luck to em.

Fuck em

That’s a very fair question. I think that from the perspective of a power user (which let’s be honest, giving a shit about this makes one a power user), the difference is sorta bullshit. In Googles case they make it hard but in Apple’s case it’s not allowed at all, so how is Apple better? If Fdroid exists for Android, then choice exists and so Apple is at least as shitty, if not more so.

You’re not wrong.

From the court’s perspective, Apple is the honest party. Apple users are never given the illusion of choice. By contrast, Google sells the illusion of choice while actively working against choice and abuses its market position to do so.

And that’s how we get here.

They bought Rocket League and discontinued the Linux version for seemingly no reason. It was a dick move for sure.

The case established that Google acted intentionally to prevent apps, hardware manufacturers, and basically their entire sphere of influence from using other app stores and services.

So no, they are in fact making massive efforts to stop you from using alternative apps and stores.

Same with their search.

Google is a bad guy, buddy. Time to internalize that.