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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Competitive online gaming is a very small niche of the gaming community.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    People are on Windows because of inertia.

    If you look at just PC gaming, Steam charts show that the big competitive kernel-level AC titles are way down, the biggest one is the newest Rainbow 6, with 80k players of the 36 million people active on Steam right now, 10 million being in-game. Funny thing is, the biggest Steam title is indeed a competitive online shooter, CS2, but it runs fine on Linux.

    If it was competitive gaming that was the only reason people aren't on Linux, most other segments would have seen a mass migration already. Competitive games can't explain why 95%+ of the community is not on Linux.

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