Also, my experience of working in games is that the developers are exclusively windows. The backend services might use other OS's, but all the game development happens on Windows. When this was going on, I don't think a single developer in our room would have know the first thing about Linux.
> Especially for game servers where Linux is in it's element.
I think you'd be surprised at just how many games use Windows servers :)
usually video game servers, need a like-for-like copy of the engine for sync purposes and to make sure the clients aren't lying about physics calculations. up until recently there hasn't been an incentive for game developers to use/work on linux support - so game servers use good old windows.
Also, my experience of working in games is that the developers are exclusively windows. The backend services might use other OS's, but all the game development happens on Windows. When this was going on, I don't think a single developer in our room would have know the first thing about Linux.
> Especially for game servers where Linux is in it's element.
I think you'd be surprised at just how many games use Windows servers :)