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2026-07-05 03:19 UTC

Let’s say most devs abandon native Linux and basically everything moves to Proton. Game devs start testing on it, then targeting it. Windows as a gaming platform withers away. A Windows API, on Linux, is now the stable gaming API. It sets the standard. …I’m content with that future. I mean, the irony would be delicious. What better way to dance on MS’s grave?

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@madthumbs@lemmy.world 2026-07-05 13:31

Without Windows you wouldn’t have Windows gaming. The Linux Kernel is unfavorable to game developers because of its instabilities (ABI/API) -and that’s not counting all the fragmentation after the fact. Linux users are cheap (more likely to pirate), more likely to cheat in online games, more likely to review bomb over stupid things, and more likely to demand refunds. -They don’t even develop for Mac ffs, and they have far more market share than Linux. Developers would migrate fully to consoles and full stack devices (like phones, Haiku, Mac, iPhone). Windows market share will decline because normal people are moving to devices. A smart phone is far safer to do banking on, especially compared to Linux. The change in % (if real) will simply be a decline in Windows, not an increase in Desktop Linux adoption.

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