I would describe "viable" as "without unacceptable concessions or compromises".

If a game you consider essential does not work, that's not acceptable.

would you say the Xbox is not a viable gaming system because you can’t play God of War on it?

It’s 100% reasonable to say that it’s not the right choice for you (and I’m not dumping my Windows box any time soon either, unfortunately), but Linux went from having a very limited catalogue of mostly indies and open source low budget projects to its current state where you have a considerable selection of big ticket games available to you.

If you can only have one gaming device, and consider GoW to be essential, then yeah, Xbox wouldn't be viable for you.

And I agree that Linux has made fantastic, amazing strides, but it's still a subset of Windows gaming. I would not be surprised if the vast majority of people who consider themselves to be hardcore PC gamers would see Linux as non-viable as their sole OS, even after being fully informed.

Ok let me rephrase it, 99.9% of the AAA games from the last 3 years don't work. For the one that work

- it's buggy

- online doesn't work

- lower FPS

- need custom setup / with custom scripts