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by scythe 3480 days ago
Reliable wifi and streaming video appeal to a significantly larger market than GPU-heavy video games. Having a good, easy-to-use image editor (competes with paint.NET and old versions of photoshop) and music player (competes with foobar2k et al/the surprisingly good performance of iTunes on os x) doesn't hurt.

("Do users do X often?" isn't the question; "do they get annoyed when they can't?" is the question, and hardcore gamers tend to have one computer for gaming and oftentimes other computers for other stuff; if they were even using Linux on those it'd be a paradigm shift)