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Sure, and I'm personally fine with it. I'm one of those kooks at work who requested a Linux workstation, much to the chagrin of the IT department.

But as long as there is a conversation between Windows and Linux that includes using the terminal, you've lost the "normie" segment of the population, which is going to preclude most people from even considering it.

This fact is invariably met with much wailing and gnashing of teeth by Linux bros who think that there's no problem at all with it.




And we're fine with it.

They can suffer Windows or MacOS, it means nothing to me.


I'm not entirely fine with it, because I suspect Valve will only continue investing in Linux gaming if there's a potential market for it.


I doubt this "potential market" is going to shrink, relative to when Valve started investing in Open Source operating systems.




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