Saying that Microsoft treats backwards compatibility and support when they are forcing everyone to either pay for win10 support or join the win11 spyware mafia is a ludicrous statement btw.

What are you using as a benchmark? Is there any OS that supports hardware or software this long? Find an original Quake 3 Linux installer and see how that goes. Not sure what spyware has to do with that.

Games with kernel-level anticheat do work on Linux, if the anticheat provider has done the work. Right now, most don’t and actively stopped supporting Linux so saying that won’t work ever is kind of a stretch.

To an end user this is a Linux problem. Like, „Haiku OS can run all the games except developers don’t support it” won’t cut it as an explanation for why your games don’t work.

“Isn’t good enough to replace windows” - here I am playing Modded games, path of exile, ffxiv, other FF games, cyberpunk, all PC monster Hunter games… Your statement is false.

You’re playing some games. Same can be said about Switch yet everybody here acts like it is some huge failure.

I see nothing wrong with using a compatibility layer, it does the work of retrocompatibility alongside separating game environments, which is good for security.

It is reverse engineered and with the level of complexity of Windows and Windows being a moving target it will never get there 100%. You have to make a conscious choice to lose access to some of your games when moving from Windows, and possibly lose access to some games that worked on Linux previously after you moved.