[PaulDavisThe1st]

> "Linux" is an infinite number of combinations derived from an a large and unbounded set of hardware, driver, OS, and environment choices.

So, sort of like Windows?

[forrestthewoods]

Not really, no. In practice Linux is radically more fragile and roughly an order of magnitude more expensive to support for two orders of magnitude fewer users.

[PaulDavisThe1st]

The opposite of my experience (I write, build, maintain and distribute a cross-platform DAW).

[forrestthewoods]

Games may hit a different set of pain points than a DAW. A lot of the Linux pain is graphics driver related. Which you could say is not a Linux problem but an AMD/Nvidia problem. But from a game developer perspective that distinction doesn’t matter.

[PaulDavisThe1st]

Actually, ironically, Linux graphics driver issues are among our most major issues.

Just not that that major in the overall scheme of things.