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PCGamingWiki Looks Into Linux Gaming With 'Port Reports'
AberBeta writes: PCGamingWiki contributor Soeb has been looking into the recent larger budget game releases to appear on Linux, including XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Borderlands: The Pre–Sequel produced by Mac porting houses Feral and Aspyr. Soeb reports that while feature parity is high, performance could be a bit better. Performance differences aside, the games are finally arriving on Linux — now the userbase needs to expand to make a virtuous cycle.
As a gamer, I disagree with your last sentence. Windows is far more than OS that runs games for me. First and foremost, it's OS that runs everything I need, including games. Second, it runs it efficiently. And third, it requires minimal technical know-how, so when I don't want to be a system admin much of a time but just a user enjoying the game, I can do just that.
Linux has a long way to get anywhere near parity on these important issues. As a result, gamers aren't looking to "dump windows" any time soon. Even Vista didn't get us to dump it, nor did 8. Microsoft will have to stumble all over itself a few more times in a row before most gamers will even consider switching to something they don't know.
And that gets me to my last point. Overwhelming majority of gamers never used linux. At all. And I'm not talking in the "oh, all gamers including social gamers" nor even "all hardcore gamers". I'm full on PC master race here. Vast majority of them have never touched linux in their lives, and have zero interest in doing so. Windows is great for them.
There are simply no benefits from switching to linux for a gamer, and a massive amount of disadvantages. This has been a fact for a long time, and it's not going to change any time soon unless Microsoft does something really stupid with windows, like move to apple's store-style closed ecosystem with windows software.