Lol is Debian not still the "I don't wanna fuck with this too much" distro? On the complicated spectrum, I think Debian fell pretty fairly in the approachable side :D

I'm doing my part

It's snappier than other distros and has fantastic defaults. It also comes with a button that installs all gaming-related packages you need, so it's become the most popular choice for gaming. It's also arch-based which is nice because you get access to basically every application you need.

I've been on Cachy for a while now, zero issues.

Btrfs snapshots before and after every update out of the box, dead simple rollbacks from the bios.

It was a half dozen clicks and 45 minutes from windows shutdown, to playing a modern AAA game in cachy.

It was easier to get it running on my Nvidia laptop using the attached monitor and an external monitor at two different resolutions, and then play games, than any OS Microsoft ever made. Arch is also the distro steamos is based on.

I've been running it about two years. It seemed to be the best distro with my above mentioned hardware requirements. I had planned to distro hop quite a lot, as I'm not averse to troubleshooting and cli work, but I have never had any serious issues and I can't bring myself to mess with perfection. At least, perfect for my setup.

It comes with defaults that are very close to what I'm looking for.

Fedora lost me to the mesa-freeworld dance I had to do every major update.

If it ain't broke... Most gamers don't care about being spied on or anything else, as long their games work.

I just think a majority of people do not care about which OS they use, or even know what is an OS. The only way for GNU/Linux to become big is if companies start shipping it in computers instead of windows.

I'm pretty disappointed in my fellow PC users.

We're supposed to be at least a little tech savvy.

My boss once asked me to trim a mp4 for him because he didn’t know how to on desktop.

Aside from other reasons that other replies have mentioned, I'm going to guess that a good part of it may be people who have at least one favorite game that uses some type of kernel anti-cheat that doesn't work on Linux. I think that that would stop many people from switching from Windows to Linux.

Most gamers don't care enough to change, and a lot that are willing are still driven off by the longstanding perception that Linux is difficult to set up and/or use. It's not, but most Linux users choose to argue that the CLI isn't complex instead of just pointing out that Mint is easier to set up and use through the GUI than Windows.

Part of the difference here is that it's much easier to buy an xbox than a linux computer. Not to suggest they don't exist, but that the barrier to entry for joe schmoe is much higher than the barriers for console exclusives. and god forbid trying to get a casual audience to install a new operating system, you'd practically need to offer a linux help line.

I think it would run in wsl, or is that terminal only? I thought there also was a translation layer for linux system calls to windows at some point, sonething like a reverse wine.

Graphics would be less of a problem, because it is just vulkan on linux, which should be available on windows.

Edit: the original WSL did that, the WSL2 is a VM or a container apparently