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		29athrowaway on March 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NPM Is Joining GitHub Hopefully they don't drop Linux support like they did with Skype, Minecraft, Xamarin[1], Corel Office and a long list of products. Their strategy from my perspective is to ensure Linux does not become a competitor for their desktop OS. 1: it never had Linux support.

chungy on March 16, 2020 [–]

Skype returned with a Linux client, and Minecraft never dropped Linux support at all.

29athrowaway on March 16, 2020 | [–]

Minecraft for Linux does not have the same features.

chungy on March 17, 2020 | | [–]

What features are you talking about? It literally uses the same launcher and same jar files. It's exactly the same game.

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