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21 days agoIf you yourself use/are familiar with Linux and willing to actually test and polish your Linux version to the same standard as your Windows version, then a native Linux version is always appreciated.
However these days, it’s probably not necessary and a lazy afterthought Linux version is like a bad console port, and because we DO have the option to run the Windows version, it’s probably worse than no Linux version at all.
So it really depends on your personal feelings towards Linux, and nobody’s going to judge you for not providing a native version you can’t personally test and support. That’s why we have Proton.
Stability is a trap. It sounds automatically appealing but is so much more trouble it’s worth for the benefits it provides, especially for a daily driver system intended for gaming, not a long-forgotten server running in a closet that’s been doing the exact same thing for 20 years. The gaming ecosystem is not stable, new games are released constantly, new clients are released constantly, new updates and DLC are released constantly, new drivers are released constantly. You have no choice but to keep up and if your OS is not keeping up because it’s “stable” you’re in for a world of pain.
If you try to use a stable OS for an unstable goal you’ll be fighting it all the time, ironically things will be broken far more often than any “unstable” equivalent, because you won’t be able to get the latest rapid updates you need when you need them. To get things to work you’ll have to force different updates into place one by one, piece by piece, then future updates will get broken because you’ll end up with two copies of things that are conflicting one of which got manually installed.
Stable distros absolutely have their place, there’s nothing wrong with them and they’re typically the most used and popular distros because they are ridiculously good at doing what they’re designed to do. But playing games on your desktop is not what they’re designed to do.