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As of Tonight, 1900 Steam Games For Linux (phoronix.com)
New submitter KGIII writes: "After a recent Steam change, there were more than 1,900 Steam Linux games listed as Valve ended up including yet-to-be-released Linux game ports. That total including unreleased Linux games is now up to 2,009! But in terms of released Linux game titles available for download right now, the 1,900 threshold was crossed tonight to end out February." It's getting there. All of you gamers might just be able to make the choice to move to Linux soon. It looks like there are quite a few more games coming down the pipe. This is a good thing as it gives gamers more options for their operating system. I imagine this bodes well for the SteamOS project and for the dedicated SteamOS devices.
I know several people who dual boot, and only keep Windows around for game playing. The sooner more people can ditch Spyware 10, the better.
*terrible* for many means less FPS on major titles while running three 1080p monitors. In my experience if I would have noticed those FPS then the game probably wasn't running particularly well in windows either.
One thing I have noticed is that load-times in Linux can actually be faster depending on the filesystem used.
Dunno why that is the complaint. I play games happily in Linux and don't have a problem with the drivers. Borderlands Pre-sequel runs absolutely fine....
Second this. I haven't played games on Linux for years but when I was playing WoW I was typically getting less than 40fps on Windows (DirectX) but >60fps on Linux (OpenGL). Same hardware, it was a dual boot system.
Looking through the recent releases for Linux, there are certainly some ambitious games there. I've heard good things about SUPERHOT, Factorio, Firewatch, XCOM2.
Overall, there is enough to play on Linux, but if you must play one particular game, chances are it's not there.