[person3]

In fairness, Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War crashes constantly for me on Windows. It's not a polished game on any platform.

I agree though, the uncertainty is definitely an issue. Maybe if enough games start to get played on linux, this will be the push that's needed for game devs to start supporting games on linux (even if that means it's through wine).

[mdoms]

The game may be unpolished and unstable but I can still boot it up and play it with my friends, which is more than I can say about Linux gamers.

[29athrowaway]

It is not that Linux is not a viable gaming platform. It is just developers not publishing games for Linux.

Why? because:

1. Windows comes preinstalled on many computers.

2. People do not install Linux because they cannot play games on it.

3. Game developers won't publish on Linux because there are not enough users.

Is 3 the real problem, or is it 2? 2 is the real problem. If everyone committed to use Linux, game developers would follow immediately.

If you use Windows only for gaming then just buy a console, it is cheaper.

[andrewzah]

"If you use Windows only for gaming then just buy a console, it is cheaper."

It's cheaper to spend money on a console, controllers, games, and a yearly online subscription than to use my existing pc? I find that hard to believe. Especially with games routinely going on sale and overall costing less on pc. Even on my Switch, games are more expensive on average.

I game as much as I can on linux (debian bullseye) but dualbooting to windows for specific games is rather easy. Unrelated, but I would not recommend debian for gaming purposes. Steam didn't even start correctly due to some static dependencies until about a month ago.

[mdoms]

> It is not that Linux is not a viable gaming platform. It is just developers not publishing games for Linux.

As a user this makes it a non-viable platform.