• Ulrich@feddit.org
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      1 day ago

      People who want to play games that only work on Windows but don’t want to deal with Windows’ KBM interface or its’ background activity shitfuckery.

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      Everyone that is scared they can’t play the most popular online games on their handheld. So theoretically a massive demographic according to research (most pc gamers play older live service titles) done but whether they would want a gaming handheld is a different question.

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        There’s apparently a chunk of gamers who can’t leave Windows because of GamePass. However, I don’t know whether it’s a significant portion.

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          13 hours ago

          I am more thinking of the Valorant, League, Call of Duty, Fortnite, etc… players. Which are a majority of pc gamers.

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            There are different clusters of users who don’t/can’t leave Windows.

            • Don’t want to learn another OS at all (They are content with the Windows experience)
            • Gamepass users. They enjoy the Netflix model of getting free games
            • Multiplayer (with anti-cheat) gamers
            • Don’t want to leave the Adobe suite/
            • Uses programs which don’t have Linux equivalent

            The Linux community has to understand that some of these groups cannot be moved to Linux no matter how much you improve the Linux experience.

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          34 million people are on all Xbox game pass versions. How much of that is on PC game pass, I have no idea.