As someone in that 1% or so of steam users, the games and support is getting much better. The folks at Valve, Paradox, Deep Silver (Metro Last Light), and so on have supported or will support it shortly. Tons of indie releases have come as well, and when the steambox hits the shelves the linux numbers will go up. Native linux games run faster on linux than windows on the same hardware, so I have been enjoying Gabes gaming future. A lot of linux users run games in WINE (windows emulator) which comes up on steam as more windows users, not that I think that is concealing great hordes of linux gamers (maybe half of them). It is mighty early days for real commercial game support on linux.
His discussion about user centric gaming and the problems with the proprietary console models was interesting, especially the time it takes to get patches approved for games. He discusses the rate of change under various models and that although PC markets are shrinking, Valve is growing at 76% per year. A lot of the talk is not about linux specifically but the market in general. So even if you reject the notion that "linux is the future of gaming" there is a lot of interesting stuff in the video.
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