I've suspected inaccuracies in the Steam counts, for a long time. One other Windows versus other OS thing that I've noticed is the fact that Steam auto-starts on Windows when you log on to Windows. With my Linux desktops, Steam only logs on, when I launch the client myself.

For a while, I've been looking at the statistics of Humble Bundle purchasers, where you can check total number of Bundle purchases and the percentage of purchases by platform. You can take into account multiple Bundle statistics and even combine all the results for a given month, to give an overall view of purchases by platform. Doing these stats, the Linux share is more rosy than the Linux share on Steam. (Of course, different Bundles have different percentage of Linux games in them, so you need to take that into account too.)

Although not exclusively measuring Linux gamers, NetMarketShare is showing close to 2% Linux market share (and 88% Windows, 9% Mac). Not much change in those stats over the past year.

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Well that's good news. But it still gets me hot 'n' bothered when people refer to "Windows" as PC.

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Noting that Debian 10 (Buster / Testing) has version 1.12 and Debian 8 (Jessie) has version 1.10, so getting the version on Steam gives you a really up to date version.

I did play it myself, long ago, as one of the few good (and free) Linux games available. Interesting to see how much it has changed, and hopefully improved.

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Already on my wish-list. Good that it's on Linux and has now left Early Access. Guess I'll check out some game play videos, based on this very positive review.

I put quite a few games on my wish-list which aren't on Linux (yet) and when they are on Linux, then I'll buy.

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For me personally, I've got "TOO MANY" games on Linux to even worry about the lack of Witcher 3, or others I'd like to see ported. Suffice to say, I generally don't buy a game unless it is available on Linux.

If "Shadow Warrior 2" was out on Linux, I'd buy it in a flash. But for now, it isn't, so I'm not touching it.

The other day "Rise of the Tomb Raider" came to Linux - and I bought 2 copies.

Meanwhile, I'm happily playing "Slay the Spire [beta]" with new "The Defect" character (and cards).

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Quoting: robvvI opened up a support request with Steam Support last night and, as lod says, the game is now available for download :-)

Yes, I didn't try on my regular PC, but I got in on another Linux PC. What I needed to do (and maybe that has changed now) - Go to regular "Install Game" option. Click on that. It had an error. Then go into Properties, and change to the Beta after enter the code "tempestlinux" in the box. After that, the Beta installed automatically overwriting the previous "Install Game" (failed) attempt. I was able to run the game.

Now I need to get back to my main PC and try again.

EDIT: Okay, so now I have got it downloaded and working on my main PC. Note that I did the same process again. I start off by Install Game. Then try to run and the run fails. Then right-click on Properties for the game in Steam client, enter the Beta Code, select the Beta, and it overwrites the previously failing-to-run game.

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Well this is good news. I bought the game in a bundle to take advantage of the Linux build only for it to go missing.

I have tried the "tempestlinux" beta code, and it still isn't letting me download the install, so maybe developers and official betatesters only for now :(

Still, fingers crossed for more!

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Does anyone here play "DayZ" using Arma 3 on Linux as an engine for it?

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I love DRM free games. Not so in love with closed-source, proprietary graphics drivers.

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Quoting: ageres

Quoting: g000hYou could certainly make two Debian 10 installs on the same machine, and share the Home volume between them. And have the advantage that if one install gets trashed, you can fire up the other one.

What do you do with your computer so you need several Debians and break them periodically?

Well the last time was a Debian 9 to Debian 10 upgrade (which I did in order to get Rise of the Tomb Raider working), The upgrade broke Gnome desktop due to the Nvidia driver blob. But this is all off-topic. Every time I run an apt-get upgrade, there's always the chance that the desktop will break due to the graphics drivers. I don't especially enjoy repairing things on the console: sudo apt-get remove -purge nvidia*

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