I always vote.

But when I vote for a minority favourite, I don’t go around saying that all other parties ignore a “significant portion” of voters.

As for games, I also always vote with my money.

Oftentimes I buy games (and not even play them) just because they have a linux native release. But I still don’t think linux gamers are a “significant portion” of gamers.

So stop with these kind of baseless accusations, where you conjure up a non existing correlation from your ass.

Just hit me up when your prediction comes true and I’ll happily agree that you were right all along. But looking at historical trends and the data that we have on the matter today - I can not share your confidence.

There were 11.1 million game developers as of Q1 2024.

The total number of game development companies from the tallied data is 9,924.

https://qubit-labs.com/how-many-game-developers-are-there-in-the-world-surprising-statistics

So you have knowledge of a tiny subset, which can not be extrapolated to apply to all of them.

As with your arguments where you mixed relative and absolute numbers - you can not apply the learnings of one subset of game devs (yourself & the companies where you worked at) to all of them, as they operate in vastly different circumstances.

For example, here is a different opinion from a game dev: https://x.com/bgolus/status/1080213166116597760

You have to compare income from sales to development and ongoing maintenance cost of supporting a whole other platform. Not all engines can easily build for Linux. And the ones that can, are sometimes hindered by windows only libraries, which may significantly speed up development or quality of the game.

Boycots work when the market share of boycotters is significant.

It’s not absolute but relative.

Because for each individual game dev, linux gamers account for on average 2% of their sales, which is insignificant.

Linux gamers are spread across all of the games and game devs.

No, because they are above the average video games market share.

But you can’t argue that Linux gamers are a significant market share, just because the number in front of the % is the same lol.

There are millions of video games, which all have below 1% market share. Compared to the average game, a single percent is huge.

But there are no millions of operating systems with below 1% market share. Compared to the most popular OS, which has above 80% market share, 1 or 2 percent is insignificant.

There are 3.2 billion video gamers in the world, and 1.17 billion play online (numbers are from 2023).

“millions” is a couple percent. (As seen in the steam survey as well as napkin mathing the numbers from above)

SiGnIfIcAnT sEgMeNt

inb4 all of the “significant segment” gives me a total of 27 downvotes - I am a full time Linux enjoyer on all my personal computers. Including but not limited to all of my gaming purposes. And I’d love for more game devs to release Linux native builds.

I just don’t have illusions about being in any kind of target audience for larger game devs.

The only way I can think of is blacklisting everything by default, directing to a challanging proper captcha (can be selfhosted) and temporarily whitelisting proven human IPs.

When you try to “enumerate badness” and block all AI useragents and IP ranges, you’ll always leave some new ones through and you’ll never be done with adding them.

Only allow proven humans.

A captcha will inconvenience the users. If you just want to make it worse for the crawlers, let them spend compute ressources through something like https://altcha.org/ (which would still allow them to crawl your site, but make DDoSing very expensive) or AI honeypots.

Dog hardware … with dog software I guess. Barks mostly reliably, but sometimes bugs out and keeps barking for no reason.

I have a raspberry pi running from a microsd (which uses the same kind of tech as a usb stick) for over 5 years with dietpi.

But considering that you think you chewed through an nvme somehow, you may be right.

I loathe to grind all the software setup, it’s so dull, yet I have to concentrate to not fuck anything up.

Just wanted to vent.

Thank you 🫰

finish setting it up

I have all the hardware laying around collecting dust