That is most definitely NOT the reason Linux hasn’t made it to desk tops. The reason is that Linux is absolutely user-hostile: “if you’re not part of the guild, you are an ignorant fool, who we wouldn’t even want to use our product.” Any given program has dependencies upon dependencies upon dependencies, each of which is maddening for the non-CS-major to install. WHAT? You don’t know how to sed your recursive grep of the root directory?
“But there are more user-friendly GUIs that run on Linux that are expanding all the time!” Yeah: like MacOS, which has been around how many years, and had how many of billions of dollars behind it? Like Ubuntu (which *is* a nice program) is going to make it where MacOS couldn’t?
I cannot make Steam work on my Ubuntu computer
Give me access to my entire PC game library and I will never look at Windows on my gaming PC again!
The problem Newell does not see is that the future of gaming is across multiple devices, not just one.
Microsoft understands this and is way ahead in converging XBox with PC, Tablet and Phone. Write a game once and it can work across all those devices.
Linux is highly fragmented and not available across multiple types of hardware unless you do it yourself.
Today’s gamers are far different from the gamers yesterday.
Just don’t ask it to play DRM protected content :)
The copy protection schemes being used today are completely at odds with open source software in production consumer electronics. It makes it very difficult for Linux to be a pure entertainment device.