There are 1,500 Linux compatible games on Steam

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With more and more people swapping Windows for Linux - and who can blame them, that penguin is the best - the amount of games that support the operating system on Steam are at all all-time high, with 1,500 games now available for the platform.

While that number is significant, there's still a way to go before there is anything near parity. By just July this year, there were 1,592 new games added to Steam, which is already more than how many support Linux. Steam averages at eight new games added every day. How's that pile of shame looking now?

Still, it's a nice step in the right direction, with Linux users able to narrow the store by operating system. If you browse the store and select only Windows-compatible games - for comparison's sake - the store shows a lofty 13,621 games.

With services like Steam Greenlight and Kickstarter getting more studios onto the platform, the amount of games added to Steam every day is only going up. Hopefully more developers see that there's much less competition on Steam for games compatible with Linux. It seems like a no-brainer when you look at it like that.

With Steam Machines releasing soon and being powered by a Debian-based SteamOS GNU/Linux operating system, it's likely we'll see many more games become compatible sooner rather than later.

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Tree_FiddyPosted:

Hollywood_Undead
Musk Lunix isn't as good as windows 10 :P


"Windows 10"
You should feel stupid for saying that.
Windows 7 is what you should say.

Even for not knowing what linux even is.


Windows 8 is better than windows 7.
8 is bigger than 7. But 10 is bigger than the 8. Bigger is better. If your small then it's bad. You need to be bigger in 20 min. Upgrade mayne. It's 10/10 ign rating.

SagePosted:

Potion must love this news! Cause he is a linux scrub #ShitLordHackerPotion -computerscienceclass2k15

BeetPosted:

aMio
Mickers
Musk Lunix isn't as good as windows 10 :P


You must not know its full capabilities


What are its capabilities?


Linux can be ran on almost any hardware and is fully customization because of open source. You can't install Windows or OSX on everything.
You can fully customize the configuration to meet your preferences because of open source.
Everything is free with Linux.
If there is a bug you can patch it yourself instead of waiting for Microsoft or Apple to patch it.
Little need for an Anti Virus
Very Stable

XBL-ABPosted:

Musk Lunix isn't as good as windows 10 :P


"Windows 10"
You should feel stupid for saying that.
Windows 7 is what you should say.

Even for not knowing what linux even is.

-MioPosted:

Mickers
Musk Lunix isn't as good as windows 10 :P


You must not know its full capabilities


What are its capabilities?

SkyPosted:

thats not a whole lot of games wow

VauxhallPosted:

Linux is good don't see why people are hate on it

RobbedPosted:

Linux is actually very good.

myKalebPosted:

With a huge majority being indie and small-scale games but still progress being made i guess

T0NYPosted:

This is a big step for the Linux community :)