This is an interesting take, especially coming from a non-gaming focused tech website like Ars Technica. I feel like it’s been too long since people were truly hyped about half life 3 though, and this wouldn’t be enough, even if Valve did go through with it.
People are increasingly unhappy with windows though, and the EoL of windows 10 may push people to Linux anyways.
the obvious thing to me is just treating linux as the primary platform and treating windows like everyone else treats linux.
“yeah sure you can run it on windows if you want, try WSL or something i guess. good luck!”