Steam and Linux Are Now an Item

[MorganL4]

Of course being able to play games on Linux and having games to play on Linux are two different things. I'm willing to be Steams 'Linux' section will have the Source Games and nothing else.

You forgot everything that was sold in the Humble Indie Bundle, for those all have a Linux release already.

Not a guarantee, at least a couple of the Indie bundle games on Steam are still Windows-only despite having OSX versions.

While I see your point, I disagree.... The Steam on Mac thing was more of a: Lets give this untapped market some gaming capability and thus make money off of them.


Most people that have Linux on their home systems also have a Windows partition as well. Thus this is going to be more of a: Get people to move to this free OS thus allowing us more freedom with our client.

Different approach, different reason for diversifying. As best I can tell, to know the actual reason you would probably need to call up Gabe Newell.

you also have to factor in Newell's stance on Windows 8: http://techland.time.com/2012/04/25/steam-native-linux-client-near-gabe-newell-trashes-windows-8/