Steam Linux Usage Saw A Notable Decline For June 2017

[anarki2]

i would not take that too much to heart seeing that survey isn't given to everyone and alot of people just ignore it,i am willing to bet the linux usage is alot higher than there saying.

You don't know how statistics work, do you? I mean you clearly don't have the SLIGHTEST idea.

[AdamOne]

I have no problem with Phoronix, or Michael, I love their work, but the following is for the 50+ commentators that incorrectly interpret percentage as total.

We dont have total steam-users for June, just April this year, so we only know that in June a slightly larger _percentage_ used Windows, and slightly less used Mac/Linux.

When we will know total users for June, then we can conclude if the amount of Linux-users increased or decreased.

[gukin]

Its also fault of the Steam under WINE User who gives a sh*t, if this is a native Linux game or a Windows game which dont get ported. They send an wrong signal to developers (and Steam Survey).
Buy Linux native game or dont buy it, if its not avaiable under Linux.
STOP USING STEAM UNDER WINE.

I suspect things may improve for Linux when Win-7 goes out of support. I know I'm in the minority but yesterday I bought three Linux titles in Steam's summer sale: "The Talos Principle", "Swapper" and "Bioshock Burial at Sea DLC".

When Win-7 goes out of support, there are going to be people who just cannot stomach all that comes with Win-10. In preparation, I've been either buying titles that play well under Wine, preferably from GOG and figuring out what works when running Win-Steam under wine. Another contributor said that running Win-Steam under wine is being a traitor but video games are a form of entertainment and entertainment comes in many forms and usually doesn't hurt the world too much. When Win-7 fizzles, I'll probably lose GTA5 forever and I'll never see GTA 6,7,8 . . . but there are other games to play, my life will not be greatly diminished if I miss out on some Windows-10 only titles; but the game producers will miss out on my purchase.

[mmstick]

Zero issues with Linux gaming using Solus OS here. No Steam issues to speak of, and my Steam Controller works perfectly.

[mike44]

Could it even drop lower? Confirmed Linux users never buy anything, are frustrated and overweight. If not crying for software, watching porn.

[muncrief]

Only 6 of my 23 games run under native Linux Steam, and only 12 run under Wine Steam, and I do a lot of work trying to change that. But since AMD abandoned their working Linux drivers, and the current ones are suffering from massive disarray and disfunction, my efforts are mostly futile. If it were just me that would be one thing, but I used to be able to get a lot of games running for others which allowed me to convince them to switch to Linux. However most of the laptops and desktops I work on use less expensive AMD GPUs so I had to give up even trying and now, reluctantly, just have to leave Windows on them.

[torturedutopian]

Would be nice to have more data to interprete those figures... As a long time Linux user (I began 20 years ago), I'm amazed to see the quantity and quality of games working perfectly on my Linux box with no tweaking at all (Nvidia). Triple A games. I used to be very happy with a couple of ports and indie games (ID, Loki, epic, then Ryan C Gordon & Humble Bundle) but now it's crazy. My only fear is that one day Steam drops Linux if sales don't follow to the extent that it's a least a little bit profitable. Not that it's really the biggest issue on Earth but this would be an issue to the development and adoption of Linux in general.

[thechef]

Writing ports is getting cheaper, population grows => relative numbers have become irrelevant. A port meanwhile costs a ridiculous number of 1000 customers or so. Makes it hard for good titles to escape an opportunity.

[Dukenukemx]

Many older windows games do not work in win10 when they work in wine. My kid has some quite new tom clansys something that works only with win7 without crashing. Intel win10 gpu driver for two year old celeron laptop is so poor that Sims 3 landscape is black. Sims 3 runs fine with Debian testing and wine-staging in that same laptop.

That's nice and all, but majority of new games don't work. Even a game like Roblox which is a relatively old game doesn't work. I have nieces and nephews who want to play this game and my HTPC runs Linux Mint. While the Roblox developers claim to maybe be porting it to Linux, it isn't a priority.

Two things need to happen. Someone needs to fork Wine and get that shit working properly, and Valve needs to create a company who ports Steam games to Linux. If your game is going to be put on Steam, then Valve needs to demand that at least they port the game if the studio isn't. Of course they'd make a share of the sales of Linux, but that's more incentive to port the game yourself.

[duby229]

Unless Steam Linux has something that invites users, making it worth the job of manually installing a different operating system, it won't go far!!!

That was never the point, not ever. The point always was that in fact there are millions of linux users. And they want to play games, It really is that simple.