This stereotypical gamers you talk about are also very conservatives, and upgrades only if there is an actual benefit in doing so, for the sole reason of keepin

This stereotypical gamers you talk about are also very conservatives, and upgrades only if there is an actual benefit in doing so, for the sole reason of keeping the FPS as high as possible, which is at incredible odds with the ever changing Linux graphical ecosystem, where nothing is stable but in constant flux. Yesterday X11, today Wayland, tomorrow what? Yesterday ALSA, today Pulseaudio, tomorrow what? Yesterday GTK2, today QT, tomorrow what?