It's time to reexamine your biases

Let’s face it, while there are plenty of great operating system choices available for PC users, for gamers the choice is clear: Microsoft Windows. Since Windows is still by far the most popular operating system, it makes sense that game developers would focus their time and energy on creating software for the platform with the largest customer base.

That’s a shame for gamers who want to use open-source operating systems like Ubuntu Linux. There are plenty of moral, legal, and technical reasons to choose this (or any other) Linux flavor over Windows.

Most of the major commercial Windows software tools also have open-source equivalents. However, getting your gaming fix on Linux systems is a real pain. As a result, an OS like Ubuntu has developed a reputation as only suitable for non-gaming purposes.