Regarding the comment about Loki, the failure of a single company doesn't say anything about the market in general. The demise of Loki was largely due to bad business decisions. Here's a recent article describing what happened to Loki.
Regarding the comments about winex, Linux users are people who won't settle for second best - that's why they run Linux in the first place. A game running in winex, isn't the same as a game running natively.
- Ghaz