Comment by robbiex88
20 hours ago
I recently rebuilt my home rig with some hardware upgrades, including a motherboard and cpu upgrade.
I use a MacBook and spend a majority of my workday in Ubuntu Linux.
The absolute only reason I installed windows on the home machine is because gaming is still essentially nonexistent in the Linux sphere.
If a flavor of Linux can catch up and run everything that can be run on windows I’d happily switch. I imagine a good chunk of the windows market would as well.
Gaming on Linux is so good now I know multiple people who switched their gaming PC to Linux and have no intention of going back. Then there's Steam Deck, which has 3million+ users alone. 3.6% of Steam users are playing on Linux[0], which is kind of insane if you ask me, especially when only 2.2% are playing on MacOS.
Install Steam in Linux and notice you can play the vast majority of your library. There are some online multiplayer games that won't work due to anticheat[1] though that seems to be improving over time as well.
[0] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
[1] https://areweanticheatyet.com/
Huh? This wave of "Linux is good now" articles are driven largely from the fall of Window's lock on games. i.e. Steam by Valve, and more.