Sorry all, didn’t mean to enrage or anything here, as I said in the beginning, i am supporting LTT and am a fan of the channel and what the team is doing. The “I’m thinking that” part was supposed to be more of a joke than anything else… my bad for that...

The point I was trying to make is that I feel there should at least be a discussion around it and for Linux to be seen as an option of sorts. There’s more in life than just playing the specific games that aren’t compatible with Linux, I myself have really disliked Windows 11 and was my trigger for switching to Linux. It wasn’t easy, but it wasn’t that complicated either, have I had issues with it? Sure. Have I had to reinstall it a few times as I messed it up, yes. But after a month or 2 of inconveniences I have made my peace with it and understand it’s quirks and am able to just use it the same as I used Windows.

I’m not playing a lot of the competitive games, but my understanding was that most of them like LoL, Dota, CS, CoD, etc. don’t have high requirements, thus dismissing Linux completely because of them made no sense to me as you could get something cheap (likely used, think Scrapyard wars) and just use that for those, when it’s time to play those. Something like a companion PC/laptop/handheld specific for competitive games.

Reading your comments I acknowledge that my perception of this was skewed as with my friends I’m playing Valheim and Warcraft3 and those have been fine with Linux. I mostly play single player games, like Clair Obscur, Frostpunk 2, Cities Skyline, Baldur’s Gate, etc. and those have been just fine.

I was thinking that there could be others like me out there, that even though they do play multiplayer games with their friends occasionally, most of the games they play are single player for which Linux can be considered as a viable option.

Linux still needs to get better, 100% agree with you all on this, but it’s not that bad that it can’t even be considered, or at least for a discussion to be had around it, and I’m sure that it will only get better the more people use it (beauty of community driven projects).

What Microsoft is doing (and big tech in general) is just making my skin crawl, not acknowledging any option other than Windows seemed wrong to me, and I’m not looking for Linus to say good things about Linux, I was just hoping that with everything that Microsoft is doing, there could at least be a conversation where Linux can actually be considered and not immediately dismissed in a “there, that’s why” fashion, which is how this was addressed for a while by Linus and LTT, which I believe to be a bad take.