[khedoros1]

The game library on the Super Nintendo means that I could play nothing but positively rated games every day for a decade without scratching the surface of what's out there. Problem: Good games aren't fungible, timing matters, and people want what they can't have. There's social value in being able to take part in talking about the games that my friends like.

Let's see: 183 games listed on my Steam account, 54 of those are available for SteamOS+Linux. A lot of those 54 are great games, but so are a lot of the 129 others. In my game catalog here, I've got about a 30% chance that the game I want to play right now will actually run in my current OS without rebooting. I don't like those odds much.

Wine? It's got the same issues that complex compatibility layers usually do. I consider it an option of last resort.