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Not sure this is the year but my “highly technical reason” is that enough gamers switch.
Why this year and not the last one or the one before that?
I'm not going to claim that this year is the year, or that any will be. In regards to gaming though, two years ago the number of games which worked through Proton was quite a bit lower, and the number of anti-cheats which worked was effectively zero.
Anti-cheat support is still far from 100%, but it is significantly higher than it was even six months ago. It looks like it will only get better from here.
fair point, there's probably quite a lot of esport gamers who are just now able to easily switch to linux, not two years ago.