free and superior OS
Windows is essentially free too btw. 99% of people don’t need to buy a license, an unactivated copy will do just fine.
Superior? I guess that’s debatable, definitely not an objective fact.
What most people will overlook just to go “yeah suck that windows!” is the GPU market share - Nvidia has 95%! That means that Linux will be significantly worse than Windows for 95% of people.
Did you not look at the results when the user has a Nvidia GPU? Or when ray tracing is enabled? if you can even enable it on the Linux version, of course. Or when res goes above 1080p up to 4K?
Edit:
Sorry this isn’t the article I thought it was, which compared the Linux performance to the Windows performance. My bad. In that one by (iirc) these guys, it’s clear that Windows gives far superior results when using Nvidia gpus, and at worst is basically equal with Linux. I’ll try find that link.
Edit 2: wasn’t gamers nexus, but was very controlled and well done and actually tested multiple Linux gaming-oriented OS’s. Enjoy.
https://youtu.be/fqIjUddUSo0
Do you see the pattern? If you’re one of the pc players who have a discrete GPU, 95%+ of you would be leaving massive, massive performance on the table by using Linux over Windows. Even if you’re in the tiny minority who have an AMD card, you’re not really getting any better performance on Linux, you’re just losing access to a bunch of the most popular games, and getting slightly worse performance fairly often.