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One third of the games I've purchased on Steam are available on Linux. I guess the perception of whether or not Microsoft effectively has a monopoly in the gam

• komali2 9y ago
  1/3 is pretty poor coverage. State it this way: "In order to play 2/3 of available video games, you must have Windows."
  • alyandon 9y ago
    Poor coverage? For an operating system that has single digit desktop market share? I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. :)
    • komali2 9y ago
      I understand where you're coming from, but the market share doesn't really figure into my argument of coverage. If the idea is "should I adopt or not," and I like gaming, then the % coverage is a highly important statistic. I can still step back and say "well isn't that nice, Linux has 1/3 of games ported and only 500 people use it! Good for them!" Won't change the fact that I need to use windows if I want to play all games.
    • mcv 9y ago
      Poor coverage exactly because it has single digit desktop market share. There's not enough market, therefore it doesn't get enough product. The end result is that if you want a broad choice in games, you need Windows. Fortunately there's been a lot of great games coming out for Linux too recently, mostly thanks to cross-system frameworks like Unity, I assume. And that's great, but not really enough to threaten Windows' position in the PC game market.