Quoting: TheinsanegamerNAs for using linux, I use linux not because it is open sourced, but because I simply do not like windows in general.

The same for me. I would not abandon Linux if Windows suddenly goes open source.

Linux is about 2% on desktops but only 0.72% on gaming computers. Why so? Because Linux gamers refuse to buy games if they:
1. have worse performance than on Windows, no matter how much;
2. don't work on their weird Gentoo or Slackware distros;
3. don't work on open source Nvidia/Intel drivers;
4. are ports by Feral/Aspyr/VP, which are not "true" ports;
5. are not day-1 releases;
6. are on Steam (where would be Linux gaming without Steam, by the way?);
7. are not open source;
8. are not free.

No surprise there are so few AAA games on Linux. Look at recent years, when Gaben started to advertize Linux gaming, Linux got many games, but what now? 2k Games stopped paying attention to Linux, except for Civ6 (after continual blandishind Aspyr, and we don't know if they even got profit from porting Civ6). We got The Witcher 2, but no The Witcher 3. Shadow Warrior 1, but no Shadow Warrior 2. The only team who still do Linux port actively is Feral. I'm afraid, Linux gaming is going to die soon, except for indie games, if this trend continues. We need to support Linux games, there are not enough of them for us to be picky. If Linux market share gets, say, 10%, then Linux gamers can do the next step, but not today. Buy something of the summer sale to support Linux gaming. I even bought F1 2015 despite I suck at racing games and its negative reviews.

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Quoting: AnxiousInfusionI hate having software installed on my system that shows me popup advertisements when I open it.. like why do I even make an exception to tolerate this shit?

Popups can be turned off.

Why are people so open-source obsessed? Games are not open-source anyway, as well as Nvidia drivers, so what would be different if Steam goes open-source? Linux market share is too small for gamers to be capricious and picky.

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It's summer sale, and thousands of cheaters (who are Windows users, of course) are buying dozens of CSGO copies each, so this affects overall percentage. Also, Steam got popularity in Asia, where very few people uses Linux (~0.1%), so if there are 17M of Chinese on Steam, that means +17k of new Linux users and +16,983,000 of Windows users. I don't pay attention to Steam stats. I prefer absolute values, not relative percentage.

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What game is better, Hollow Knight or Salt and Sanctuary?

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If a game I already own gets ported to Linux, I buy a copy and store it in my inventory. I cannot gift it immediately because I don't have any friends using Linux, so that would be counted as a Windows sale AFAIK. So, what should I do now?

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> Reviews: Mostly negative.
I wonder why sales were poor…

F1 2016 has "very positive" rating though.

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Without Steamplay, if somebody wants to switch from Windows to Linux, after installing Linux an Steam, he would see that he has got 0 games there and needs to rebuy something to play. I think, that would hamper moving to Linux. So, how it could be good for Linux gaming?
If a game gets a Linux port and I already have that game, I usually buy either one more copy on a sale or some DLC.

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It seems Linux versions of games consume much more RAM than Windows versions. Why?

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What about performance on AMD CPUs? Once again my FX-8350 is in the minimum settings and only Intel is in the max settings.

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Maggie sucks a pacifier... Something French... Maybe a France-related game that sucks? But BioShock Infinite is already on Linux. Remember Me then?

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