> Microsoft Windows sales will take a big hit because people will be able to play the popular games on Macs or even on Linux machines.
Nope, because only 1% of computer users ever install their own OS, and less than that build their own, so they are buying prebuilt machines from distributors that put Windows on it. They see Linux and reject change, and try to stay close to the platform they have used for a decade, even if it is shoddy. And they would never fathom going through the process of installing an operating system.
It would start a trend towards Linux, if PC gamers could switch to barebones distros to optimize their rigs performance in games (yay for cruft like Aero desktop slowing down 3d performance), then Linux becomes "cool", and soon the communal nerd of every family is actively putting it on pcs to play games, and then the parents get used to it, etc.
But that is a gradual thing, and having the ability to play web games on Linux doesn't translate into a jump off the Microsoft bandwagon any more than the tens of millions of people who use their laptops only for Facebook and Twitter have jumped in the last 5 years.
Nope, because only 1% of computer users ever install their own OS, and less than that build their own, so they are buying prebuilt machines from distributors that put Windows on it. They see Linux and reject change, and try to stay close to the platform they have used for a decade, even if it is shoddy. And they would never fathom going through the process of installing an operating system.
It would start a trend towards Linux, if PC gamers could switch to barebones distros to optimize their rigs performance in games (yay for cruft like Aero desktop slowing down 3d performance), then Linux becomes "cool", and soon the communal nerd of every family is actively putting it on pcs to play games, and then the parents get used to it, etc.
But that is a gradual thing, and having the ability to play web games on Linux doesn't translate into a jump off the Microsoft bandwagon any more than the tens of millions of people who use their laptops only for Facebook and Twitter have jumped in the last 5 years.