All of which are not attributable to Linux per se, but to 3rd parties who refuse to deal in Linux. Reverse engineering hardware to create a driver is hard work, and all because vendors refuse to provide a stable driver for their own hardware (trackpads and graphics cards being the obvious examples). Valve has proven that there <i></i>IS<i></i> a gaming market for Linux when everyone said there wasn&#x27;t,  and proved it months in advance of the release of the first SteamBox. How many other software vendors have been parroting that &quot;there is no market&quot; reasoning without ever backing it up? And sometimes you have to create a market, not wait for it to exist before trying to fill it.