No matter how you see it, games are primarily made to run on Windows and the other OS's are an after thought. I am not saying it didn't get better but gaming on windows is natural and requires no special configuration. A normal user who wants to play games if he's not already on a gaming console the next best option is Windows.
> No matter how you see it, games are primarily made to run on Windows and the other OS's are an after thought
I think this hasn't been true for some time for studio games. Most (big budget) games are ported to windows from consoles, except for indie titles
Most big budget games have a cross platform engine, at least for development purposes.
And yet most big budgets games don't work on Linux, whereas most indie games, or from smaller companies do.
Re:WSL Getting GUI Support
by littlestymaar on Saturday September 26, 2020 @10:40AM
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While I agree with you on the fact that it's way easier to run games on Linux than ever (especially steam games thanks to proton and DXVK, but it trickled down to most games as well) and that Linux never had so many supported games, I still spent 3 hours to install torchligh 2 the last time I wanted to play with it, dispite it being sold as Linux-compatible! Oh, and I spent 4 days (not full time obviously) installing WoW Classic last year, and it involved manually installing a release-candidate of the latest kernel. So it's still definitely not for the faint of heart.
But at least now it works! (Unless it doesn't because some retarded anti-cheat software which doesn't actually prevents cheating, gets me banned after a few minutes. Looking at you Apex Legends)
It really isn't any more. I play a lot of games and only one so far has refused to work well on Linux, and that's one which is emulated on Windows so I can't blame Linux too much for it. And that's on a laptop with nvidia's power-saving shit thrown into the mix. As for entertainment, aside from Firefox having issues with hardware acceleration, most of which have either been fixed or are being fixed, I haven't faced any in Linux that I haven't on Windows. That said, I don't use HDR, so I can't vouch for that.
On the other hand, I've had significant performance issues with WSL, especially on disk use, and I don't really care for windows update bugging me all the time and the telemetry. I jumped on board Linux with Pop!_OS and it's been a delight. I used to be just as negative on Linux, but I have been so, so happy I've been proven wrong.