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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.
Most gamers don't give a hot shit whether their games are running on windows 7, 8, or 10 - they just want their games to run. Give them the operating system that runs all the games they want to play and they won't care what it's called. You need to drop this notion that every consumer out there cares about your philosophical operating system debate.
People won't switch to Linux simply because you wish it. There has to be some tangible benefit to doing so that gamers can't live without. Right now there is none. Any game worth mentioning runs on Windows, and only a small portion of those run on Linux. Call me when Linux can get commercially viable games exclusive to it, because right now your game must support Windows if it's to succeed, but it doesn't have to have Linux support at all to be successful.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
...by at least a decade.