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And if you use Linux you have to jump through hoops to install (non-steam) games. I know, just yesterday I had to search a working tutorial for installing Fall Guys.

BTW for anyone needing help in the future, this worked: https://youtu.be/X41PlQNx0vk

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As a user who bought FG on steam, I had ZERO issues whatsoever getting this to run on my Walmart laptop. This is an Epic issue. Fuck Epic. Ran Fall Guys into the ground before laying off basically all of its creative team. It’s just a grind now…

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

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Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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Anyone who makes a stand to defend Linux as a gaming platform over Windows is righteously impractical at best, and a principled idiot at worst. It’s simply not there yet.

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This isn’t much of a hoop, you install wine and run the installer with it, furthermore, I’d rather deal with the kind of hoop that isn’t actively harming you intentionally any day.

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It was not easy. Other guides didn’t work, I had to find it, and also do or, so it took like 1 and a half hour.

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My advice is honestly, just use steam, it’s largely a better experience anyway. I don’t think fall guys is exactly necessary. That’s a very self-imposed hoop, i’d get it if it was critical work, or if there were no alternatives, but, steam is a perfect experience.

It’s epics job to support linux, not linux’s job to support epic.

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Any advanced user will face dozens of hoops a month on Linux

It’s never the simple things, nor the very difficult things. It’s small, niche workflows & use cases of your computer that you “sometimes” do, like, I don’t know, editing a PDF, installing shareX or an equivalent that can take a screenshot and upload it to imgur / run OCR on a part of your screen, running a Space Engineers server for your friends, running SSEEdit.exe to dump the contents of a potion overhaul mod in Skyrim and calculate which are the best ingredients to plant in your Skyrim greenhouse and garden for maximizing gold output.

No need to look up ways to do any of those, I’ll get different ones next week, and then more the week after.

You know, the millions of things that no one ever does except that guy in 2019 on StackExchange, but that you will have to do and then never again.

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I face yearly hoops at most and I have supported many users, the vast majority of people have little to no trouble, and the cases you describe are either niche, one time setups, or bizarre things nearly nobody does.

I maintain that the vast majority of users will face fewer issues on linux than winsdows, these are all insanely edge cases.

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Harming you intentionally… This is rich.

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Do you actually believe windows doesn’t harm users intentionally? Wait until you hear how they spy on you.

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