[mVChr]

And not being able to play A-grade games is barely a rounding error in the pros and cons of why most people use Linux, especially in the workplace.

[OskarS]

For workplace, sure. But the only reason I don't run exclusively on Mac or Linux is gaming. I've spent a lot of money and time in that ecosystem for that single reason.

There's a lot of people that care about gaming, even if you don't.

[pjmlp]

This will hardly change, back on my hard GNU/Linux days I came to realise that the gamer/demoscene culture and UNIX culture are totally opposed to each other.

The gaming and demoscene cultures don't care 1 second how much their tools cost, the openess of hardware and software tooling, rather the achieved results and getting their stuff on the hands of users, regardless how.

The GNU/Linux culture is all about the ideology of having stuff for free, replicating a desktop experience as if CDE was the epitome of UX, fulled with xterms.

Of course I am generalising and might get tons of counter examples, just noting my personal experience regarding friends and co-workers.

[xorxornop]

And it is also why it will continue to be marginalised, and have generally shit, inconsistent UI.

[foepys]

I feel that any KDE distribution has a more consistent UI than the monstrosity that is windows 10 with their Metro/Ribbon/Windows 7 UIs.

[krylon]

It is a matter of taste, of course, but compared to Windows 8 and Windows 10, common Linux/Unix desktop environments like MATE or Xfce are very pleasant to use.