Developer claims Linux forced Microsoft to up its Windows game support

I see a lot of comments in the discussion forums on Steam asking for Linux versions of games. I don't know how many actually buy for the Linux version, though.

If Linux ran all the games that Windows did, and just as well, I'd love to switch over. But until then, it's not really a good option for me.

However, I will say that I love being able to stream games to my Steam Link box in the living room (from the other end of the house) and that box came out at the same time that Steam OS was announced. I don't know how connected they are, but I suspect it's got Linux on it. It can't run games directly, though.

I haven't heard of one person using them, but similar to the sibling poster, I'd switch to 100% Linux if most of the Steam games I like were available on Linux.

That said, Valve's "focus" on Linux does seem to have seen an increase in what games are available on Linux. Or possibly that is more modern dev environments supporting Linux/iOS/Android out of the box? Not sure.

I'm not using a steambox or steamos. But I game on Linux exclusively, thanks in-part to the efforts of Valve and Humble Bundle.

I think the issue right now is that SteamOS is still not stable and usable enough for the average user, and anyone who is a power user probably doesn't want to run SteamOS, when they can just run Steam on Linux on whatever distro they want to use.

Of course, the other big one is Linux support in games. I have a 600-game library and only a proportion of those are Linux compatible (250-ish, to varying levels of success).