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		merlijn_s on July 13, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Consolidating the Linux Desktop App Story: An Idea The biggest issue is the distribution. One of the devs of the Minecraft Windows 10 edition said that it would be trivial to port that to desktop Linux but they would have to set up their own payment and distribution system, which just isn't worth it for that tiny market. Having packaging and distribution built into an IDE goes a great length to solve that issue.

voltagex_ on July 13, 2017 [–]

Except they could throw it on to Steam for Linux - it's a business decision not to put it on there and let Valve take 30%.

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