After getting close to bankruptcy with this easy-of-use nonsense in the late 90s they came to their senses and rebuild everything on *nix which also included a CLI? 
It was sh!t hardware and zero innovation that got them bankcrupt. 
Also the market wasnāt great for them.
Indeed the UNIX-based OS was a huge part of their success on the comeback. and like I said, OSX became popular. The āengineā underneath was powerful, but the GUI to match is is the reason why people liked to use it.
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āI wanted to test Linux with the Battefield 2042 betaā
Oh no anything, but that game!! 
Well it wasnāt just that game 
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I would say I liked their honesty with how they felt. If they were gonna put that tweet from 2019, they should have also included a recent one where the developer was thanking Linux users for the complete bug reports and it was helping their job tremendously. Also, Luke mentioned a lot of games donāt work day 1 and this is mostly an NVIDIA issue. I do pre-order a lot of games and play on day 1, on AMD they most likely run out of the box with mesa-git and proton experimental or GE (never mentioned once in the videosā¦).
I did play BF2042 with a few friends on Windows when it came out, but I havenāt in a while. I feel like the only game I boot up Windows for is iracing these days since I just pop it open and go sit in my cockpit.
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Definately not a nvidia issue.
Normal people have no idea about Proton-GE for example.
Forza 5 didnāt work on Linux for 5 days, not on nvidia or AMD.