Now there are so many of these games that have arrived on Steam for Linux as well, such as Life is Strange, Tomb Raider 2013, Shadow of Mordor, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, XCOM 2, Race The Sun, Road Redemption, SUPERHOT,…and the list grows on! We also have the upcoming Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and Mad Max!!! Instead of years, nowadays we only have to wait for months for such titles after Windows releases and this is big news! These collections are a majority of Steam for Windows games.
Many of us like to backup our Steam games so we won’t have to wait for downloads to complete. Thankfully, the Linux gaming community is emerging gracefully and we are having more and more popular Steam for Windows games being launched on Steam for Linux. Hence we keep both of the OSs so that we can play all of our favourite games regardless of the platforms they arrive on. Some of us would have had only Linux had it not been for those games which have not yet arrived on Steam for Linux. There are many of us gamers who dual boot Linux with Windows. If you are or want to be a committed Linux gamer and have games on Steam that are supported both on Linux and Windows, or have dual booting OSs for the same reason, you might want to consider reading this. We will also show you how it saved over 83% of download data for us. Brief: This detailed guide shows you how to share Steam game files between Linux and Windows to save download time and data.
