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It has actually been perfectly viable to escape Intel and (especially) Microsoft for a very long time. Lots of people on HN have done so.

Buy an AMD machine, install Ubuntu, and you're done.

>gaming PC

>Ubuntu

Hope he likes Mahjong and Tux Racer

Have you not heard of Valve's Proton? It's the next best thing!

yeah.... OpenGL is so far from Dx in terms of performance that it is laughable.

It has potential, but when I want to unwind and fire up a game, the last thing I want to do is deal with the rigmarole of alpha software

WINE + DXVK can pretty much run any modern game (with varying performance).