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The original was posted on /r/linux_gaming by /u/BouncyPancake on 2024-04-07 15:57:26.

I’ve been using Linux for the past 8 months now, and I have a record of switching to / using virtual machines with Linux for even longer than that (since 2020). I used and still use Windows for a lot of things, mostly work related things though (VMs that manage AD or some other specific software for work).

When I first switched, I would load Windows to play some games, not because they didn’t run on Linux but because I had them already installed on the Windows drive. Eventually, I moved over those games.

Then I eventually only loaded Windows to play one or two games because they didn’t run on Linux. Eventually they started working with Proton or I quit caring about them (those games in particular).

Recently, some developers and game publishers have made decisions that have made playing their games on Linux impossible or completely not worth it.

I an usually very open about the fact that I still use Windows, and will load Windows up to play games when they don’t run on Linux but this time, I’m not doing it. In this very specific case, I’d rather not play the game at all even if I did use Windows primarily still because I find it gross that they are blatantly making games incompatible. I hope others will do something similar in protest; not feed into these developers’ and game publishers’ wishes and load the games up on Windows.