I often see posts in OpenBSD and FreeBSD subreddits from people thinking about moving to said OS'es (I'm talking about desktop users, of course). Now that Linus does his things again, these posts pop up even more often.
They usually have some bullet lists with things need to daily drive the OS.
One of the things many people ask about is support for games, whether something relatively simple like Minecraft or even some AAA titles.
I know for a fact that gaming support (especially with Valve efforts) brought a lot of attention to Linux. Many people moved from Windows or even discovered Linux for the first time thanks to the fact that they actually can play the games they like on this OS. Now we even have gaming distros like Nobara.
But I wonder, would it be a good thing for BSDs to widen gaming support?
On the one hand, it's not a bad thing - more attention to BSDs, more support for more things.
On the other hand, something in me tells it might be a wrong type of attention that might bring wrong type of changes to OS.
What do you think about it? Would it be good for desktop BSDs to widen gaming support, e.g. via better ports of wine/Proton/Steam, etc.?
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