When will Linux shall triumph over the desktop market?

I hate to see games and software being developed only for Winblows and MacPrison.

Why don't some company make a normie-friendly distro and heavily support it, same as Google did with Android, but for desktops?

MacPrison,lol never thought of that ++ just alone for that.
Google didnt made Android though, it bought Android Inc., I fully remember since I once though joining a group that was trying to develop a Nix based successor of Symbian and the unfunny meme that Windows put out back *back* years ago and they were trying to up them

Also there is SteamOS, ElementaryOS that aims to be basically a ubuntu-based MacPrison-looking OS, ZorinOS that has the option to look similar to Windows 10, is not there arent people/company working on such thing, is that fucking "normies" sometimes dont wish to spend time learning stuff that they are already familiar with and lets be honest, there is sometimes still stuff sometimes they will need to open the terminal to do stuff and when they see a tutorial on the internet and the tutorial says blah blah and then open Vim on the terminal, you will lose alot people there

And dont get me wrong how sometimes dumbing down shit for your average normies sometimes you end introducing fucking securities bugs and other nasty shit cos you are sometimes preoccupied for making your shit works easy for your slowly processing thinking user percent and/or loooking pretty

Because no one wants to distribute to such a small market, have less tools available and less driver support. Plus, many people on Linux knows how to get a game without paying for it.

There is a lot of progress regarding gaming on Linux in a last few years. I use GNU/Linux for work and Windows (7 of course, not Win10) for playing games and photo editing. I was pleasantly surprised that more than half of games I have on Steam are available on GNU/Linux.

I guess that if and when Autodesk and Adobe release their software for GNU/Linux the situation will change dramatically.

Although core of the Android is FOSS, every Android phone you get is full of proprietary software and spyware put by Google and phone manufacturers. I wouldn't like to see that in GNU/Linux distribution and I would rather use MacPrison than that.

I'm actually quite happy that Linux is not so common on the desktop. Once it is widespread, it will automatically become a target for attacks.

I'm not in the mood for viruses, trojans or any other crap.

You Linux fanboys love the customization that Linux provides you. Well, if Linux becomes widespread and mainstream, it'll become more like Windows and MacOS, which would enrage you guys. Can't have everything you want. 🤷

As @calmyourtities said it's a very very small market. And most of the people who use Linux would just not pay for it.

@jhh2450 @calmyourtities I think most Linux users spend money more liberally than Windows users, although they might be pickier about which studios they support — hence the high amount of cross platform indie titles.

Linux desktop will not be mainstream in gaming anytime soon. DirectX means you already can distribute to PC and Xbox, and lots of game devs seem to like C#.

Even studios which use a cross-graphics-API engine like unreal often have their own inhouse tools and libraries using Windows APIs, which lock their games to a single platform.

Linux Desktop in general is already mainstream. Out of the ±1500 laptops at my company, about 1200 are Chromebooks, the rest MacBooks.

That's as much of a cheat as calling Android "Linux Mobile", you say?

True, but any mainstream Linux will be modded and locked by a vendor, and scoffed at by those believing in a "True Linux". Recently someone told me "Ubuntu isn't really Linux, they don't even use the word on their site or OS, and it's a mainstream system made by a company"

So I think "Mainstream Linux" is like "Artificial Intelligence". Every time it arrives the phrase is rebranded to include mystical ill-defined future scenarios, but it will never describe the current state of things.

@bittersweet >Chromebook
That unfunny meme still alive in the wild? man...
Also great post mate, quite interesting info

Hopefully things will start to change soon, since we now have a cross platform alternative to Directx, Vulkan.

Nah, we good on linux land. And most of us that game do so on a dedicated winblowe pc which is dedicated solely for gaming. Nothing wrong with being aware of all operating systems.