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Ok, but why would a hardcore Linux person want to play games that embody everything they hate about Windows in their mode of production, data gathering practices, politics, etc?


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_fizz_buzz_10/11/2024

People use Linux for a wide variety of reasons and those reasons are very often not ideological. If the only reason to use Linux was ideological, Linux wouldn't be as popular as it is.

Philpax10/10/2024

linux users like to have fun too

Also, there are plenty of Windows-only games that aren't subject to those practices. Free games, itch.io games, GOG games, etc. There's a big world out there!

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viraptor10/11/2024

It's just a platform which is an available option. Nobody forces you to play games that you don't agree with for any reason.

umanwizard10/11/2024

There are lots of reasons to run Linux. Not everyone who runs it is a free software ideologue.

nottorp10/11/2024

Stay away from the companies requiring their own game store / "club" (i'm looking at you Rockstar) account and you're likely to be fine.