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I think you're wildly overestimating the influence of the minority within HN (or other similar communities) that actually care enough to switch to another search engine.

This reminds me of the Linux gamers who claim that they can influence game development companies by purchasing games with Linux ports, but wind up being less than 0.5% of sales of most games with Linux ports, which leads manufacturers to ignore that customer base almost completely.

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Not disagreeing with you.. big companies truly mostly ignore Linux but there are more than a few indie devs who support Linux as a platform. And I tend to play only indie games these days anyways because all the big commercial games have been reduced to some kind of click-and-succeed or free-to-play-and-milk-some-whales crap.

I personally am kinda happy where Linux gaming has come to be. Sure it could always be better but I remember times where there were only like 3 games for Linux and you had to compile them yourself..

game companies might have ignored us, but in the end it created a space for valve and codeweavers to fill.

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