Capable maybe, but no Linux of any flavor will never be a viable gaming platform. To be viable installation of games must be user friendly, right out of box, without having to find, or worse code, drivers or wrapper programs to make the game work.
Maybe for individual games with certain hardware, but never for mass production. Bad enough getting a decent game library for Macs.
Have you ever even used Linux?
It’s not quite as bad as you think. Friend of mine plays quite a few mass market games including major MMOs on Linux. She’s also got a massive collection of more obscure indy games as well.
We compared notes when we set up Touhou 9 - Phantasmagoria of Flower View for online play, including the popular third party networking tool that replaces the rather shoddy built in support for LAN and netplay.
She couldn’t get it to play properly at all in Win7. Her Linux box and my Vista box required the exact same tweaks...setting compability mode for Win9x on one of the exes and Win2k on the other. My Win2k box was the clear winner...ran it “out of the box”.
Seems Win2k and WINE had the best support for the older DirectPlay that was needed. Similar results on the other Touhou games as well...WINE and the Win2k box ran them with the least tinkering.
Oh, my box did need one DX9 file brought in from an XP install for Touhou 13 which hers apparently didn’t. Think she actually wins for that one..not everyone would have access to a trusted box as easily as I did.