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Re:Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores by pjmlp on Saturday June 20, 2020 @12:18AM (#23581613)
With its drive for fragmentation, even with a gaming distribution like SteamOS, Linux gaming community keeps changing between 1 and 2%.

No one is betting their business in such tiny communities, while having exponential costs in development and dealing with very vocal and entitled gamers.

So naturally a couple of studios test waters, and then they just target Android instead.

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Re:Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores by Kaze404 on Saturday June 20, 2020 @10:11AM (#23584030)
Do you have a source for Linux users being "very vocal and entitled"? Someone linked this Twitter thread here and, while they ultimately chose to stop supporting Linux, the picture painted of Linux users is very different from what you describe. https://twitter.com/bgolus/status/1080213166116597760
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Re:Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores by pjmlp on Saturday June 20, 2020 @12:12PM (#23584701)
Really? Is that so hard to find?

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/3409

https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1223457395419930627...

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