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Windows is more than viable as development platform, ask Valve why they need Proton in first place.

Breaking an illegal monopoly takes decades but, as it happened with Internet Explorer 6, it's finally happening for Windows.

70% market share, plus all the games that Proton depends on.

And trending down.

IE6 was 97%, how did that work out?

Are you saying that games get released on Windows a lot because developers prefer Windows as a development platform?

Yes, that is the favourite platform for game studios, and console devkits.