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I'm saying calling it a circlejerk to still be on Windows is unnecessarily derisive when the post I was responding to even calls out that Linux alternatives play most games. Most games is not all of my games. I'm not a Microsoft fanboy by any stretch, but if it's the only way to play a game I want to play, that is what I'll do.
I despise the term "circlejerk" and was only using it sarcastically. But in any case, I do grow tired of people shitting on linux. The reasons? I have explained a million times.
I mean, either deal with windows and its 1000 flaws or the same with linux. Some of us would just rather deal with flaws that are honest. I'd rather deal with a bug that 100 people around the globe work together to fix in a timely matter than deal with shit-ass "features" that actively ruin my experience because some disgusting executives want to buy more Porsches this summer. While pretending to care about me as a customer.
Cue "I just want to play games". Well yeah me too sometimes. Now that I have an AMD card, I never have a problem with it. I spent a lot of time testing my games and 86% worked fine. This included a lot of sketchy/old games (Jedi Knight 1 and 2 for example -- those barely can work on anything newer than win 98) that I didn't expect to work actually... If we're only talking new games, it's probably like 95%. I don't play games enough to care about an occasional poorly-written game not working.