Cossacks was one of my favorites RTS (along with starcraft). It sure was my best "historic" RTS I know.

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Quoting: lucinos999 linux games on steam now!

Where did you get your number? Steamdb says 951 (working), Steamstore has less than 999 (some games are not available anymore, did you count them?).
SteamDB LInux [External Link]
Linux games are 900+ no question, so we'll hit 1000 soon (fairly early this year).
And of course also in games the quality counts not the quantity!

from here: http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_4_4__12&term=#sort_by=_ASC&category1=998&os=linux&page=1 [External Link]

About the quality, Some months ago I had made a research about this exactly. I had a very interesting result. The quality of indie games was way better! Linux had also way greater percentage of indie games. Also "big titles" of linux although a lot fewer (as raw number and as percentage) were by no means worse as quality. And this made a strange conclusion.

If you name percentage of "big titles" as "average quality" then linux was clearly losing.
If you divide indie games and "big" games and not mix these "average qualities" then to my research it seamed that linux was easily wining both!

So depending the definition of "average", linux is clearly wining or clearly losing (but still becoming better because more big games are coming to linux). If you give high weight to the few "very high quality" games (and this is not wrong because one may say that these in fact really matter) then linux is worse in "average". (but linux is getting better every day especially in this metric). If you give high weight to the many "very low quality" games (and this is not wrong either because one may say that this is what "average" means) then linux is already better in "average"!

This may be not so much a surprise as it seams that quality games have greater incentive to reach linux users.

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999 linux games on steam now!

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I created steam account in 2013, I only use linux and I only buy linux games. I do have "non linux" games on steam only from humble bundles and many of these do support linux drm-free. So my ratio so far is: 166/194.

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In my view Debian-based should be split to ubuntu-based (includes ubuntu flavors and mint and some others) and debian-based (includes lmde, sparky and others). Both because they are somehow not very compatible and because they have so much share.

I am really happy to see so many Arch and Arch-based (like Manjaro) users!

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