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Considering the huge push from Valve to improve gaming on linux, which includes improving Wine etc... The fact that Google's new platform is entirely Linux backed, and AFAIK Sony's next gen is probably Linux as well. It is inevitable that Linux will become a huge platform for gaming.

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Unlikely, Valve has been trying to push SteamOS/Linux for years. So far without much success.

The recent uptick in Linux and Wine support may counter that... it feels like there's been more effort in the last 8-12 months than in the 2 years prior to that.

Just the uptick on Gaming on Linux youtube content from previously windows-centric sources would indicate demand is climbing.

Sony used BSD for PS4, it would be interesting to see if they moved to Linux for PS5 and what would lead to that decision.

Sorry, *nix... didn't necessarily mean to imply that it's only Linux and conflated Unix and Unix-like platforms since a lot of the libraries and tooling will overlap.

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