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Not always, depends on the reason they exist on windows. If it's because of an underlying design detail (like, they way a library is written), then it probably will. But if it's some other reason (bad driver, wrong/old dll, misconfiguration) then it may not exist in wine.
Yeah, that $30 windows license is really prohibitive. When a single game can cost twice that.
Windows license is around $90 for a legit license. Steam has many, MANY free games, and many sales for games under $10.
Let's not get into whether oem licenses are legit or not. Yes technically you're not allowed to resell oem licenses without HW, but in my 20+ years of experience nobody gave a damn retailers and dealers included. Windows activates with it, and it works, you get updates.
The point is the reverse isn't true. There's basically no noteworthy games you can run on Linux, but CAN'T run on Windows. So you're always at a disadvantage gaming on Linux if you play a good variety of titles. It seems like the gap is getting smaller though, so I'm hoping it becomes competitive at some point.
Nah, oem licenses are cheap, and they're already supporting windows installs. If they started selling PCs with a Linux OS they would have to either support that too (more money), or disclaim support (fewer people would buy an unsupported product, particularly since there are few consumers who use those operating systems who could help if they got stuck). The capabilities of the OS are a consideration, but ultimately you need a good marketing strategy, and nobody has felt like putting one together for consumers (beyond Ubuntu with dell, but Canonical has backed off that space and focused more on servers).
Right, but they aren't not selling it due to lack of games, they're not selling it because there's no marketing strategy that makes sense right now for Linux over Windows other than "it's open" or "it's different". You can't argue that it's better, because different people will have different opinions and value certain things more than others (games or productivity, for instance). Linux will be on most OEMs when Windows falls out of popularity (due to ads, or subscription schemes, or lock-down, or whatever). Gaming is just one part of that.
I wasn't talking about native, that was never going to be a realistic general use option for gamers on its own. The support for Windows titles it's getting now is honestly what Linux needed 15+ years ago. Better late than never.
MS should just open source DX already so we can all get on with our lives. lol Well actually I hope they don't... we have a superior open source API hopefully developers continue to migrate to it on their own.