Imagine, you software get massively used for piracy, and then you decide to ask for licence for the use of thir software, host on server you do not control. I suspect this will not be result they expected

Pour ceux décompté. Il y a malheureusement des secteurs (par exemple parce que sans papiers) où les morts aux travail ne sont pas décomptés

Top 10 played games on steam :¹

• CS GO : compatible Linux
• Dota 2 : compatible Linux
• Battlefield 6 : not compatible
• ARC Raiders : not compatible
• PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS : not compatible
• Path of Exile : not compatible
• Rust : not compatible
• R.E.P.O : not compatible
• Banana : compatible Linux
• Bongo Cat : not compatible

So 3/10, and 2 of them are made by valve with an explicit orientation toward Linux. Because I’m unemployed, I computed playtime of those games²:

• 1. Counter-Strike 2 : 36,07 %
• 2. Dota 2 : 21,54 %
• 3. Battlefield™ 6 : 10,46 %
• 4. ARC Raiders : 8,16 %
• 5. PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS : 6,78 %
• 6. Path of Exile : 4,08 %
• 7. Rust : 3,93 %
• 8. Banana : 3,24 %
• 9. R.E.P.O. : 3,08 %
• 10. Bongo cat : 2,67 %

Tbf, I didn’t expect that Linux Games represent ~ 50% of playtime of the top 10. This quite impressive, and it does underline an interesting trend. However, I think a lot of people use their personal experience to other, with no regards for the social contexte. I got 3 different computers, I’m used to Linux, and I couldn’t play to almost every games. Because I’m too poor to get the right hardware, because my friends do not play on compatible games, and gaming is a social experience. My point is not that we shall not make FOSS propaganda’ my point is that software need to be produce regarding the need of the people in our diversity in order to make FOSS mainstream. Everybody is not in IT, in the US with a engineer wages.

Links

• 1. https://store.steampowered.com/charts/mostplayed
• 2. https://steamdb.info/charts/

tbf, data shows that less than 60% valve games release this year runs on linux with no issue and 30% runs with major or minor issues. This stat is stables for years, so we could generalize it; however it do not represents actual gamers experience; very few games represent the majority of gametime, and a lot of them do not run on linux.

Moreover, when the hardware hardly meet the requirements, some people experience crash on linux where stable on windows.

In any demonstration, you have to make some unproven statement, taken as true. It could be “1+1 = 2” or “God exists”. So sciences are methodologies based on believes. Lot of religions use logic and reasons, based on science and philosophy, to deduce things from their core believes. This is theology.

So if both science and religions are based on believes, and could have the same methods, how to distinguish one of the other ? We could argue that science try to reduce believes as possible. Personally I’m not good enough in sciences to argue with religious people, and demonstrate that point. In trying to challenge my believes in scientific models, I have to stay tolerant with religious people (I’m not sure I would otherwise); which is a most productive approach. Furthermore, it helps to have a critical point on view on science (as you’ve said, and to taking it as a blind faith)

How do you know that science is not a believe like the other ? My answer is in challenge it with other believe systems to explain reality. Of course some things make a lot more sense with science methodology, but to be faire, te main point of religions is not to explain gravity.

I consider other believes as opportunities, no to explain to others, or to be taught by others, but making both and strengthen us all.

However, we shall to care do not confuse religions and believes. A lot of people took part in religions and do not believes, and others believes and do not took part in a dedicated community. This is a different topic. Communities are generally a good thing, but hierarchy lead to abuses. This true in every organization, religions include