Not sure what "you" you're talking about. I'm telling you the truth about my Steam use, so your comment feels pretty weird.
It's true though that the availability of games is much less on Linux.
It's true though that the availability of games is much less on Linux.
Well yes you can launch Steam on Linux and yes perhaps play a small selection of games.
My "No you don't" comment was aimed at highlighting the vast majority of Steam usage cases is still Windows only. In the classic consumer sense it's still essentially unusable on linux:
If >10% of my steam library works on Linux I'd be surprised.
Unfortunately that does little to help the cause though - 33% is enough to get me to say "not bad", but when you pitch the average consumer with a "you can totally use 33% of this cars features" well realistically that salesperson is getting laughed at.
Bad analogy.
A better one: out of all these cars, you can pick 33% of them.
The games you can use are functional.
The bulk of gamers already have Steam profiles with games. And since the majority of those will be Windows users they wouldn't have selected only linux compatible ones.
i.e. They're in the same position as me - switching to linux would kill the majority of their games (2/3rds in my case) AND limit any future selections.
It's a complete non-starter.
I'm hoping things have changed, but based on my last linux gaming adventure I'm very wary - seemed like a complete crapshoot as to whether your distro's audio and gfx setup aligns with the game and even then the FPS rate is a complete luck of the draw. And god help you if you're not on a standard ubuntu gnome setup...
Practically it's a complete non-starter though. The reality is the majority of my games don't work on Linux and frankly I have better things to do than mail campaigns about cross platform.
So gamers will stay with windows via pure inertia & it'll continue to be a self-reinforcing cycle.
Steam's Linux library and client usage continues to grow, and Vulkan (Vulcan?) speaks for itself.