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Steam developed for Linux a while back but stopped. There’s a push toward Linux for desktops with major OEMs, and I think this is becoming a sell point for gamers. I’ve been on Ubuntu for years and love it. I use Fedora for my home servers.

I still have a Win7 machine for gaming, but most of my day-to-day is on Linux.

I'm a Luddite (in a way) and am very comfortable on the command line. Moved from a DOS/DesqView environment to Win 3.1 around the time Windows 95 was popular, and in 1998 moved to Linux. Redhat at the time (although I'd dabbled in shell accounts at a couple ISP's before putting linux on my own hardware), then Mandrake, then Gentoo. I still run Gentoo, but most of the applications I use are console-based. I'm so old school, I use FVWM as a window manager! Have setup other WM's for family members, but they prefer Windows.

Anyway, like you, most of my day-to-day in on Linux, but of the 7 to 12 computers on the local network, only three that I personally claim are running linux (ancient screenless laptop as mail and print server, some old K8 machine in a desktop case as file / photo / music repository and server, and I do most of my keyboarding and viewing on a $150 NC6000 from ebay). The other machines are WinXP or Android (close to linux) or iPods.