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Im ngl, I feel like its posts like these that make people dislike Linux users. Expecting every game that you own to run perfectly isn't some insane requirement, its totally reasonable lol. I get that its kinda frustrating people won't ever switch, but lets be real, the only way Linux is actually going to gain new users is by having it come pre-installed on devices. Look at the increased Linux use because it's the default OS on the steamdeck. It just needs to be the default on more devices, and be solid enough that people don't even notice they're not on Windows. The amount of people who will actually go out of there way to switch their OS is so negligible it may as well not even count. So who cares about these people who will never switch, because they probably won't matter much in the end anyway.
--And I say this as someone who has been on Linux full time for a little over a year now.
Lol, most games I own don't run on windows without substantial tweaks and compatibility patches. Even then often games are buggy.
A game with texture issues on windows is badly made, a game with texture issues on linux is a game that doesn't run properly on linux /shrug
it is insane, because it doesn't even fucking apply to any version of windows, it's bog standard for older windows games to just shit themselves in various ways.