[wly_cdgr]

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?

[_fizz_buzz_]

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.

[Philpax]

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!

[lmm]

> 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!

Those games are generally not AAA by definition, and often either already have a Linux build released, run acceptably under traditional emulation, or both.

[viraptor]

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.

[umanwizard]

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

[nottorp]

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.