How is this relevant ?

I was commenting on the availability of Linux games. There are very many and they generally don't suck. Avoiding Linux because of a lack of games is not a strong argument, if it ever was.

You mentioned your Steam library....

You are aware that steam runs perfectly under Linux, are you not ?

Of course. Do you have a point?

Not sure how indicative I am, but I run a windows VM just for gaming and have set the same up for friends.

If more games were available on linux I wouldn't have to run the VM and be a lot happier. I still refuse to buy or play any blizzard games due to their policy of ignoring linux users.

Though the other issue is nvidia drivers.

Steam survey is not useful for estimating Linux usage of cross platform games. It's not even clear how accurately it represents all Steam users. But given that majority of Steam games are Windows only, such survey is pointless when you need to know percentage of Linux usage for a given title.

Can Steam run in Wine? If so, Linux might be substantially undercounted. It is a small minority in any case, of course.

Many games work well in Wine. And now with DX11 support coming, even more of them will.

So I've heard; what I was wondering is if Steam itself does?

Since Feb 2013.

What would be the point of that ? Just install steam on your Linux of choice.

So you can run Windows only games on Linux? I do this. It works well.