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There’s hobbyists using m68k Macs, Amigas, and Atari STs. Definitely a small niche, and those running Linux on those machines more so.

• estimator7292 1y ago
  Sure, but almost nobody uses or wants modern linuxes on those machines. It's almost always described (in their own words) as "some ancient crusty version of Debian"
  • cbmuser 1y ago
    Nobody wants to play games on Linux given the small userbase compared to Windows. Yet people work on it. You could make this argument for so many usecases but apparently people just enjoy bashing retrocomputing here.
    • pezezin 1y ago
      > Nobody wants to play games on Linux given the small userbase compared to Windows. According to the last Steam survey, 3% of players use Linux. Steam has 130 million active players, so that means there are 4 million people playing on Linux. Definitely not "nobody", and way bigger than the whole retrocomputing community. By the way, I am also one of those retrocomputing guys, I have a Pentium 2 running Windows 98 right here. IMHO, trying to shoehorn modern software on old hardware is ridiculous, the whole point of retro hardware is using retro software.