Linux is cool, indeed, but Linux is also hard. It is cool to be hard, I guess.
I am on Linux because I appreciate the ideals of the Linux world. Not particularly because I tend to be an anarchist or even a socialist, most of the time, just because I like that it has any ideals at all. Linux is as much people as much it is technology. Linux people, due to dealing with multiple difficulties in the realm of software usage, have grown solidarity, as well as social self-awareness of a movement. But Linux, is not for all.
Windows users sparsely have any notion of identity to what they do, unless they encounter some resistance, typically on the forums, if they choose to dig deeper. It is because Windows, is default, it does not take a decision to submit. With decision, awareness begins, the responsibility for path pursued.
Gamers, are an audience. Where the audience is, the money is, then, there is the infrastructure, various providers seeking to make profit. Understandably, infrastructure follows where the potential harvest should be best. Actions undertaken by the infrastructure representatives, expand adaptation of the core system.
Until certain time, there was a notion that nativity is the primary objective, that Linux needs as much of the native software as it may only get. It never has happened to a satisfactory degree. It came true, on the other hand, for the Linux users, that if they do not carry out things by themselves, nobody is really going to help them out. I think the great equalizer, should be the cloud. Linux ought to be most supportive of the cloud. Working as a kind of a Chromebook - which means, mostly a medium - Linux could show significant merits over more cumbersome and costly operating systems, but it would take a consensus in the community to reach.
To be able to provide the public with something default, a product or equivalent.
But Linux, has ideals and it is most impressive that it attempts to look further than the next easiest opportunity, which is, to actually see the cloud as a new
Microsoft of the future, to be highly watchful of.
I have an impression that Linux perceives the cloud as a sort of disgrace, as something that is likely to ruin the goals the Linux was striving for. Suddenly, all becomes simply irrelevant: "nativity" is passe. Again, big corporations dictate which way to go. The just satisfaction is, deep at the bowels out there, it is Linux once more. The biggest sore, the home PC users are never going to care or even notice. Nothing really changes.
In short, the systemic purpose of gaming in my view is to attract potential consumers to a certain place, to generate gravitational field significant enough to become significant oneself, in the context of a wider ecosystem.
Gaming, is a magnet for the masses, therefore, a crucial economic tool.
True Linux, though, is about being focused on a purpose.
I want to believe Linux is about an ideal, looking beyond.
EDIT:
There is a popular song, the lyrics of which I associated, perhaps relevant fragment goes like that:
Quote:The journey is more important than the end or the start
And what it meant to me will eventually be
A memory of the time when I tried so hard
I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end it doesn't even matter
PS.
Have you ever thought that buying Windows-only games to run them via WINE on Linux, is actually supporting the Windows infrastructure, therefore, supporting Windows indirectly, while having zero support from the software developers due to being out of whack in terms of how things are meant to be?
see Linux as a viable choice not only the sub-par annoying little brother.