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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Most of the time indie games actually do run on Linux, it's the games from big studios that don't (in my experience)

[–] ShovelLiz 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

all the indies I play run completely without issues, even those that don't use major game engines like celeste and rain world