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acidblood

Knew he worked for MS, didn't know about the Doom thing. Also, he is right about games on Linux, the #1 thing holding me back from going full time Linux is games, #2 is Visual Studio / .Net / C#, and #3 is Office... hopefully all will be fixed in the next few years.

Deathenger

Yeah I've always know about his long tenure at MS, but I didnt know how instrumental he was to gaming on Windows. He's so right about Linux, man I been saying that shit for years. I would go full blown Linux if I could play all my games at the same quality and as on Windows

ceratop001

I took linux in college for a semester and I forgot everything I learned lol

H0urg1ass

You would think that someone who worked at the worlds primary OS development company for 13 years would understand why Linux is terrible for gaming.

1. Like others have said, it's too fragmented and disjointed of an OS.  There's a goddamn version of Linux every time someone doesn't like the way that two lines of code were written.
2. Consumer adoption.  The vast majority of gamers, or computer users in general, do not want to have to learn a new system from the ground up.  Windows is easy and windows uses an incredibly simplistic GUI.  Many version of Linux are saddled with a GUI that looks like web browsers did in 1995.
3. Application ubiquity.  I can't think of a single program that I want to use that doesn't run on some version of Windows.  I can think of at least half a dozen applications immediately that I would have to find a substitute for if I went to Linux.

Gabe can screech about Linux all day long if he wants, but until he can find a way to fix the above three issues, then the consumers simply won't adopt it.