If Linux wants the home user market, (Score 1)

...then it is vital to have more games released for Linux.

As a Computer Science student (who isn't a CS major these days?) I consider Windows my gaming OS and Linux my working OS. Many other individuals in my age demographic are certainly the same. If we can get significantly better game performance on Linux (i.e. games developed specifically to take advantage of Linux's features), then current windows gamers would switch to Linux. After all we spend ridiculous amounts of money on the newest, coolest hardware and go to other extremes all for our performance fix. Why not switch OS's for that fix as well?

However, getting publishers to release non-crippled Linux versions of their games is an entirely different subject.