Linux Usage Rose By A Tiny Amount On Steam Last Month

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@Michael

I am wondering why your articles about the linux userbase on steam always sounds like its stagnating? ( i'm no native speaker ) But if we take a closer look and not only on the percentages we can come to another conclusion. Lets face it, if you just look at the percentages ? and get the feeling its stagnating ? we (silently) assume that the overall userbase is constant. I guess this is the reason why i, at least, had the feeling about your articles. Let me try to look at it from a different perspective: Lets first investigate what the overall userbase looks like. If we do that we ? maybe ? surprisingly note the steam userbase is massively rising!



If we take this to account and see a stable percentage of the linux userbase one must conclude that linux is just as fast rising as the win userbase.

Wow, that's 125M people -- and it's rising -- wasting their time and living in fantasy worlds and hurting themselves because not paying attention what else happens in their cities and globally. This eventually will have its price.

[Licaon]

Wow, that's 125M people -- and it's rising -- wasting their time and living in fantasy worlds and hurting themselves because not paying attention what else happens in their cities and globally. This eventually will have its price.

So this 1% could have saved the world and now the can't any more or what? What where they doing before Steam anyway?

[DMJC]

Just need a few more AAA titles. We're almost there. I'm just waiting for a few more games and then I'll be using my gaming PC again. Some genres are still critically under represented on Steam.

[DeeK]

Wow, that's 125M people -- and it's rising -- wasting their time and living in fantasy worlds and hurting themselves because not paying attention what else happens in their cities and globally. This eventually will have its price.

And that number pales in comparison to people who watch Television, wasting their time and viewing fantasy worlds and hurting themselves because (they are) not paying attention (to) what else happens in their cities and globally.

Even Facebook has figures an order of magnitude above that, wasting their time, etc, etc, etc.

The price? Already paid in full.

[Michael_S]

Wow, that's 125M people -- and it's rising -- wasting their time and living in fantasy worlds and hurting themselves because not paying attention what else happens in their cities and globally. This eventually will have its price.

If you're going to be snooty about it, add in the 1.4 billion people on Facebook, the 700 million on Snapchat, the 300 million on Twitter, people that play fantasy baseball or fantasy football or fantasy basketball, people that play tabletop games like Settlers of Cataan, hunters, fisherman... I'm sure we can think of others.

Having a way to blow off steam in your free time (see what I did there?) is not a crime against humanity. Making your source of relaxation and stress release an obsessive focus is bad - but that's true whether you spend too much time playing League of Legends or too much time reading medieval poetry.

[Passso]

If you're going to be snooty about it, add in the 1.4 billion people on Facebook, the 700 million on Snapchat, the 300 million on Twitter, people that play fantasy baseball or fantasy football or fantasy basketball, people that play tabletop games like Settlers of Cataan, hunters, fisherman... I'm sure we can think of others.

Having a way to blow off steam in your free time (see what I did there?) is not a crime against humanity. Making your source of relaxation and stress release an obsessive focus is bad - but that's true whether you spend too much time playing League of Legends or too much time reading medieval poetry.

I really prefer people who buy a range rover to "cruise", eating 20l/100km of gazole or going to nowhere by plane at 10 000km just to drink and sleep on a beach.
Some people even watch porn with animals or eat 10 pizzas per day and I still prefer them to those stupids nerds playing nasty fantasy games to "have fun".

The last time I did play a video game was Tetris on GameBoy and I am so ashamed to have lost 1 hour of my life that sometimes I wake up in the night crying alone in my bed. Even mother cannot calm me down.

Bye, I have to taxidermy my cat now.

[Michael_S]

I really prefer people who buy a range rover to "cruise", eating 20l/100km of gazole or going to nowhere by plane at 10 000km just to drink and sleep on a beach.
Some people even watch porn with animals or eat 10 pizzas per day and I still prefer them to those stupids nerds playing nasty fantasy games to "have fun".

The last time I did play a video game was Tetris on GameBoy and I am so ashamed to have lost 1 hour of my life that sometimes I wake up in the night crying alone in my bed. Even mother cannot calm me down.

Bye, I have to taxidermy my cat now.

Nice.

[humbug]

If you're going to be snooty about it, add in the 1.4 billion people on Facebook, the 700 million on Snapchat, the 300 million on Twitter, people that play fantasy baseball or fantasy football or fantasy basketball, people that play tabletop games like Settlers of Cataan, hunters, fisherman... I'm sure we can think of others.

Having a way to blow off steam in your free time (see what I did there?) is not a crime against humanity. Making your source of relaxation and stress release an obsessive focus is bad - but that's true whether you spend too much time playing League of Legends or too much time reading medieval poetry.

Not to mention millions of people have been losing themselves in fantasy worlds via books for hundreds of years yet humanity has survived... As you said what matters in life is balance- do you devote adequate time to your family, other commitments, physical exercise etc in addition your hobbies. That's the important question. Books, movies, games and other passtimes can be a source on enrichment and joy amongst all that.

[profoundWHALE]

I really prefer people who buy a range rover to "cruise", eating 20l/100km of gazole or going to nowhere by plane at 10 000km just to drink and sleep on a beach.

I think I'm missing the point?

Some people even watch porn with animals or eat 10 pizzas per day and I still prefer them to those stupids nerds playing nasty fantasy games to "have fun".

So you prefer twisted minds or gluttonous people over playing games.

The last time I did play a video game was Tetris on GameBoy and I am so ashamed to have lost 1 hour of my life that sometimes I wake up in the night crying alone in my bed. Even mother cannot calm me down.

That means that you should talk to your doctor because you have some serious mental health issues.

Bye, I have to taxidermy my cat now.

It's good to see that you enjoy something that's sort of productive.