"Linux has more than 3500 games in steam + more than 2500 games with platinum compatibility in Wine + more than 1000 native games on sites/apps like Lutris, ONEPLAY, LinAPP, HOLARSE, itch.io, GOG, Penguspy, LGDB, GAMEJOLT, and independent sites

= more than 7000 games"
your math dont take into account Intersection.
just a quick visit to winehq and you see that a lot of the platinum games are also on steam for linux (3 on the top 10 list, you cant be that blind)
lutris is not an store, its just an mannager for your librarie.
i didn't even heard of linAPP, ONEPLAY,HOLARSE,Penguspy,LGDB much less an windows user or console player, i dont know even if the keys are legit or are like the g2a keys.

there is no origin or uplay for linux.

plus wine maybe a pain in the ass to configure, no one want configure something when they have time to play, all they want is sit and play.
combine that with what GoLBuzzkill said, and you will realize that from the point of view of an gamer, there is no sense in switching for linux, no advantages only disadvantages, is from the point of view of linux users that what you said matters.

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Quoting: ison111Wasn't everyone saying that Steam Machines don't get counted in the survey?

In my opinion that is a HUGE factor. Because without counting steam machines you're basically completely ignoring the entire audience behind steam supporting Linux in the first place, and all you're left with is mostly just Linux users who'd probably be using Linux on their desktops even if there was no steam Linux client.

Until we know steam machines are being counted and/or steam adds the survey to steam machines if it's not already, then I personally think this statistic is utterly meaningless.

steam machines were an flop.
we didnt had any news about the sales of the machines, but we had about the controller.
500.000
https://www.destructoid.com/valve-has-sold-over-500k-steam-controllers-365274.phtml [External Link]
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steam machines where relased at: Nov 10, 2015.

7 months to sell 500k controllers, the 2 first months tend to be the ones where most of the sells are done.

you dont need an Steam Machine to have one controller, but all Steam machines come with one controller and supports at least 4.

valve didnt say anything about the numbers after that, if they were any good they would.

in other words, even assuming that everyone who purchased one controller had one machine, that would mean an number between 125K and 500K machines sold during that period.
that is very low for an console, they are pretty much floped at this time.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: elmapul.Especially because its a dead system that you cannot buy new anymore.

you cant buy the hardware but you can buy the games

yes you can but i can still also download the rom for free and play it on linux today and nobody is going to kick down my door because of it. I get what you are saying support the porting to linux by buying x title etc but on this occasion i fail to see the point. Whoever holds the rights now to snk games is not the original snk as they went out of business in the late 90's.

you're quite outdated.
they were purchased by an company that didnt knew how to manage the ips, then the original ownerd purchase it again.
nowadays they are owned by tencent, the saame company who owns Riot (league of legends creators)

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Quoting: wojtek88I don't get it. Why Steam publishes information about users from surveys instead from analytics of running Steam clients?

1)some people would count that as spy.
2)maybe they dont want help their competition to know their numbers?
3)too many data to process on their servers?

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.Especially because its a dead system that you cannot buy new anymore.

you cant buy the hardware but you can buy the games

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this is nothing new.
those games are avaliable on humble bundle too.
and buying on humble bundle, allow you to play on android or pc (windows, mac, linux)

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next step is the performance conformance...
at least i'm my book

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" However, if there's a major difference in pricing between the countries you won't be able to gift it to them."
they need an solution to people who want to gift an person from an different country even it if mean paying more because the game is more expensive there.

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that is great, we dont lisen about inovations in audio as much as we see in graphics

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI love Arch, but there is definitely a price to be paid for having a rolling distribution. This reminds me of the time a bad version of Ghostscript popped into it and it would cause any printouts to be solid black.

Good things there are always work arounds though, which is what makes Linux si great. Do you think Windows 10 would let you roll back a core library if it broke anything? Or macOS for that matter. Not that macOS would update core libraries that often...

windows dont break stuff that often, we got games for ms-dos running on windows 7, i cant say the same about linux, i had a lot of games breaking every 6 months during the era that all games for linux were open source (before steam came to linux)
then i stoped using Non LTS Ubuntu :v

but to say that windows wouldnt allow you to do that, is pretty much Straw man since you dont need, and when you do, there are countless hackers who made patches/mods for the games to keep then running.

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