[ascar]

Yea similar for me. I run native linux for work, but a windows machine with a Ubuntu vm for private use. I just can't get around certain things only being really available on Windows.

Though I have a harder time thinking about macos things that are lacking in Linux apart from the Microsoft Office and the Adobe Suite. Especially since the dev experience on Linux is much better considering your servers or embedded devices are running on linux and macOS just adds an unnecessary layer of complexity to your dev environment. yea, you often don't realize it, until you work with C (which might sneek in as a library in your favorite higher language written in C for efficiency) or something else "native".

My point being it's much harder to get rid of windows than getting rid of macos. Even with a Mac I still needed a windows machine at least for games. But many people maybe just need pc + office + Adobe which is exactly mac.

[tracker1]

Which is why I'm so glad that Valve/Steam are putting in the efforts they have been, even if it's yet another (less) walled garden. I don't play games a lot, but appreciate their efforts all the same.

[heavyset_go]

Thankfully WINE's licensing ensures that Steam's compatibility layer doesn't get stuck in their walled garden exclusively, and all Linux users get to take advantage of Proton and their upstream WINE contributions for free.

[tracker1]

Exactly.