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Tell me why "market share" of commerical, proprietary games is important to Linux again?
If you are a Linux user and like commercial games, you probably would prefer them to work on Linux.
“Market share” on Linux aligns the vested interest of game makers and Linux game players. If the company thinks it can make money, it will do more to allow games to run, or at least do less to stop them.
Because of Valve, Linux is finally my main OS. I'm a PC gamer and it was a pain in the ass to dual-boot between Windows and Linux.
A lot of people only play games on their computer, hence running linux doesn't make sense if they can't play games on it
Yup, a big excuse I used to see a lot was
And this has changed a lot with what valve has done which opens Linux to a much larger market of people that can now use it for their usecases.
Steam market share is honestly probably a decent metric for adoption rate of Linux as a whole.
And that's important because?
Linux can be used to play commercial games > more people daily drive to linux > more companies port their software to linux > even more people switch to linux > Windows/macOS duopoly breaks, losing to open source alternatives
I'm not saying playing call of duty on the deck will make windows fall, but it's a start
Since when have you needed to commute to use Linux? 🤣
Daily drive linux *
Lmao my bad