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90+% without Linux? That's not how it feels like, though. Maybe it's because the genres I play are accidentally also the genres with the most Linux support, but

by erikb 9y ago

90+% without Linux? That's not how it feels like, though. Maybe it's because the genres I play are accidentally also the genres with the most Linux support, but it feels like beside the odd game here and there or an older incarnation of a game I like, everything is on Linux. And with most engines providing the easy choice to add another OS to build for, the numbers should be growing even more.

Jach 9y ago
I also don't think it feels like 90+% these days. My own steam profile says 144/323 games support Linux, plus I've got some number more Linux capable games from bundles that I never imported into Steam but either played on desktop or in some cases the mobile version. (Then there's the "classic" Linux games from the dark ages that I really liked a lot like Battle for Wesnoth, Tremulous, and BZFlag.) Of course of the steam ones, I've encountered several that either flat out didn't work on my system (probably the hardest part of shipping linux binaries is testing for many distros and setups, SteamOS/Ubuntu gets you most of the way there though) or they worked poorly. So most of my gaming is still in Windows 7 but I don't really use that OS for other stuff. Of those 144, I've played maybe half of them (my backlog is huge..) but mostly not on Linux. Either because they didn't support it when I played (Half-Life games as probably the oldest example) or I tried and it didn't work [well] or I just didn't even bother trying. Even for the engines that don't support one-click Linux (or Mac) builds, it's not an insurmountable effort to support Linux, and if the game was already targeting multiple consoles+PC they've probably abstracted most platform specific stuff already. So it's just an economic issue. A lot of the technological issues have been mitigated or gone away.
mjevans 9y ago
I was speaking about potential customers (by sheer numbers) it's currently over 95%; though this is a catch 22 / chicken and egg issue. http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ Scroll down, click on "OS Version" (you might need to enable some steam domains in your script blocker) Windows has about 96%, Mac a little under 3 percent, Linux about 0.75%.

by erikb 9y ago

Jach 9y ago

I also don't think it feels like 90+% these days. My own steam profile says 144/323 games support Linux, plus I've got some number more Linux capable games from bundles that I never imported into Steam but either played on desktop or in some cases the mobile version. (Then there's the "classic" Linux games from the dark ages that I really liked a lot like Battle for Wesnoth, Tremulous, and BZFlag.) Of course of the steam ones, I've encountered several that either flat out didn't work on my system (probably the hardest part of shipping linux binaries is testing for many distros and setups, SteamOS/Ubuntu gets you most of the way there though) or they worked poorly. So most of my gaming is still in Windows 7 but I don't really use that OS for other stuff. Of those 144, I've played maybe half of them (my backlog is huge..) but mostly not on Linux. Either because they didn't support it when I played (Half-Life games as probably the oldest example) or I tried and it didn't work [well] or I just didn't even bother trying. Even for the engines that don't support one-click Linux (or Mac) builds, it's not an insurmountable effort to support Linux, and if the game was already targeting multiple consoles+PC they've probably abstracted most platform specific stuff already. So it's just an economic issue. A lot of the technological issues have been mitigated or gone away.

mjevans 9y ago

I was speaking about potential customers (by sheer numbers) it's currently over 95%; though this is a catch 22 / chicken and egg issue. http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ Scroll down, click on "OS Version" (you might need to enable some steam domains in your script blocker) Windows has about 96%, Mac a little under 3 percent, Linux about 0.75%.