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I'm guessing that's based on official and legal purchases, while I'd wager than "Windows gaming" is a whole lot bigger than just the legal stuff.

Unclear if parent is referring to "Gaming" as a whole or just including boring capitalism numbers like "marketshare" etc.

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Older games are usually easier to run on newer versions of linux than windows, in my anecdotal experience. Not sure about cracked AAA titles, I guess that's a bigger part of the "illegal" stuff.

Yeah, that's true. The other week I tried to get Svea Rike II (1998) to run on my desktop. Tried everything with Windows 11 since I thought it would be easier but nope, nothing worked, couldn't even get past the installation. Switching to trying it on Arch with Wine and boom, five minutes later I was up and running.

Hey Gabe, who’s your biggest competitor? Mark Rein? Nah, Peter Sunde.

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