This is an interesting take, especially coming from a non-haning 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.
People are increasingly unhappy with windows though, and the EoL of windows 10 may push people to Linux anyways.
Nah sounds like a waste of time and resources to make a game built on their multiplatform engine and then lock it down to one environment.