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> Your only issue then is graphics card / graphics card drivers.

Some developers are only developing for DirectX only. Even some developers who, have in the past (Blizzard) supported Macs, have forgone this in their latest product (Overwatch) because of the additional hassle in doing so.

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While this is true, a surprising number of games (using DirectX) run nicely under wine. It's not like 5+ years ago when many titles didn't work and those that did often had problems. Wine now runs a lot of games very nicely.

(Overwatch, unfortunately, seems to be one of the few that doesn't work at all under wine)

You have the same problem on consoles I suppose, but also if companies don't invest in OpenGL or alternative frameworks, then that's another factor. I'm sure there's plenty of other warts to be fixed in Linux as far as gaming is concerned though.

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