https://partner.steamgames.com/ says there are 132 million monthly active Steam users, so that's more like 2.5 million Linux users on Steam.

Nature is healing.

Pop OS too.

The Switch is 7 years old this month.

PinePower is another good option that's not very expensive. 65W with 2 C ports and 1 A port for $25.

I wish people would stop parroting this. For the vast, vast majority of games it isn't true.

It's much faster.

Let's be realistic: if your mom had an AR headset, you'd be troubleshooting that and the printer.

The kind of game-specific fixes that get added to GPU drivers on Windows are typically added to Proton, not the Linux GPU drivers. Waiting a week for the Nvidia driver so you can be sure it won't break your system is only a plus in this instance.

The suggestion here is that the type of game that can thrive on a subscription service is either a small one that benefits from better curation and visibility or a live-service one that can make up revenue on the backend by charging all the new players microtransactions (the new store shelves are inside the games themselves).

I've been saying this since Game Pass launched: it encourages scummy monetization. The kind of games that come to it are going to have more and more content locked away behind microtransactions to make up the money lost by not selling copies. It's going to gradually become full of "free" to play garbage, and people will accept it because they didn't pay for an individual game outright.

There are too many technical hurdles to making backwards compatibility work, and personally I'm glad they ripped off that band-aid this gen and gave us real VR controllers.

And if you think there's a lack of games, you just haven't been paying attention.

I use OnShape and it works great. There is also Plasticity, a newer CAD application that has a Linux version and looks promising.