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Steam is the world's largest digital game distribution platform, supporting all major operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux or SteamOS, Valve's own distribution derived from the acclaimed Debian GNU/Linux OS.
[...] There are approximately 6,500 titles in the Steam library. Almost all of them are being supported on the Microsoft Windows platform, a little over 2,300 have support for the Mac OS X operating system, and 1,500 titles offer support for Valve's SteamOS and any other GNU/Linux distribution out there.
[...] Even more good news: [...] Many other games will have support for the Linux platform soon, mainly because Valve will finally release its Steam Machines gaming console / personal computer in November, which will be powered by the company's Debian-based SteamOS GNU/Linux operating system.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 22 2015, @03:51AM
There was a time when my hard drive died and I used Ubuntu from a flash drive while I was waiting on a new hard drive to come. It took me 2 or 3 weeks after receiving the new drive to actually get around to installing it and going back to Windows.
(Score: 2) by ledow on Tuesday September 22 2015, @09:25AM
I had a similar experience. A year later that machine was still on Linux and I could find little reason to switch.
However, my employer bought me a Windows laptop for work which was vastly overpowered and had a gaming graphics card in it (and an overclock button - obviously a serious business machine!). I gamed on Windows but brought things like Open/LibreOffice over instead of MS Office and so on. I ran that setup for five years. When it broke, I just booted up the old Linux machine and carried on.
Linux is a perfectly viable OS for almost every use. Gaming is a struggle, but Valve are working on that more than anyone else.