Gersen: Yes and ? I mean you mention that like if it was something new or unusual.
That's something pretty common that has happened for years, and it's something most professional software publishers do, not just Microsoft. Once the official suport ends, usually long after the end of life of the software, some companies gives you the option to pay to have said support extended even further.
Darvond: A lot of people are making a bit of a fuss.
vidsgame: I was looking into Linux Mint and although it has come far in gaming it has a ways to go but being stuck with Windows for gaming really sucks, indeed. So I agree.
I use Windows 10 and maybe I do use it by choice but I feel like I have no other option. I have seen no other operating system that could run my old and new games without problems.
Darvond: Wine has made many strides, but Mint is actually the last distro I'd use for trying to game. Due to it often being several versions out of step with upstream, unless you're insane and use a PPA.
The next closest thing I could find is how
Linus set up Ubuntu with help from Wendell. Long and drawn out process that poses a steep learning curve.
In addition, it also relies heavily on Wine and that alone can botch up everything with a single update as I've experienced. To make no mention of the driver updates that can do the same and worse.
I use Mint because that is the simplest version I could find for gaming. Any other distribution has an even steeper learning curve. I still know little about terminal and truthfully, I'd rather just use Linux for Home Theatre rather than gaming which requires way more maintenance.
I do hope though, that Linux does get way better and more stable because Microsoft seems to be headed in the opposite direction and they of course, have no concern for their users.
Stuck between a rock and a hard place or at least that seems imminent to be the case soon.