Why it matters is because there are different workarounds for different games. Some can run just fine in a VM. Others have wine tricks or proton tricks that you can use. Still others run dockerized on winboat.

Being evasive just means that people have to give you generalized solutions that may or may not work for your particular scenario. Help could exist for you, but you’ll never know.

Depends on the anti cheat. GTA V runs just fine on a vm with sunshine/moonlight using proxmox with GPU passthrough.

FreeBSD is a massive pain in the butt, the only thing that really saves it is their handbook. The documentation is incredible , so if you’re willing to put in the hours it’s a great staple operating system.

I do love the pkg system now, it definitely beats trying to build everything out of the ports tree. It’s a fun thing to play with, but I don’t suggest it to people for a daily driver unless they really want to learn about it.

I never bought into the ecosystem. My first laptop had os/2 warp, then I moved to slackware for years. After that onto FreeBSD when I became a sysadmin. I was turned onto Ubuntu by one of our developers (12.04) and then ended up on Debian when I started gaming. Played guild wars and bf1942 for years until ea used anticheat that was Linux compatible, but disabled it, then moved away from games with a community so toxic it requires software to stop cheaters. I even had an employer pay for a windows xp cert for me and thought it was the jankiest operating system I’d ever used. It was impossible to update everything, the command line was neutered and it t was so slow compared to everything else I used.

Currently I run proxmox and debian on home servers and cachyos on my laptop and gaming computer. I buy computers with no os, or build from scratch where I can and only choose games based on Linux compatibility. I don’t have a need for windows because I’ve never used it for anything besides software testing. I never understood how windows and a FreeBSD clone became the two biggest players in the market.

Windows is like McDonald’s. No one really likes it, but it’s ubiquitous, you know you’re not going to like it, and you’re going to regret it as soon as you bite into it, but you expect that, so you choking it down doesn’t seem so bad. It’s convenient and a lot of other people eat from there, so you try to convince yourself that it’s acceptable for dinner and eat it anyway.

My mom was running slackware for a couple of years in the early 2000s. She kept downloading viruses on her computer and I was tired of her having her ship it across the country so I could fix it. I installed slackware on her computer and shipped it back, and walked her through setting up a port forward on her router for ssh access. She had no idea she was running Linux the entire time until she went to Walmart to buy Peachtree Accounting software. She couldn’t get it to install, so she called and asked for help. I got in with SSH and installed KMyMoney for her and she used that for a year.

It lasted up until she bought a laptop, one that came with Windows 7 I think. I stopped helping her after that because I didn’t really remember how to use Windows anymore. Windows had a subscription antivirus at that point, before Defender days, and she just paid for that.

He’s also said socialism and not democratic socialism, so… He’s changing the narrative on you.