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Valve Now Reports The Steam Linux Marketshare At Just 0.35%
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Originally posted by birdie View PostLet's have two dozens of comments like yours.
This doesn't change shit: there are roughly 300 times more Windows users who decline to participate in Steam Survey.
Why do Linux users always think they are special, they privacy concerns are special, and their worldview is also special? You could remove a crown from your head once in a while.
You're in no way special and Steam matters because people who actually game do use Steam.
Steam Survey fails even at dealing with Windows userbase, since it's wildly unlikely that chinese userbase has risen by 25% while english userbase has shrunk by 10%, while Win7 usage has risen by 25% (= likely due to chinese) while Win10 has shrunk by 10% (likely due to less english userbase polled).
In a month, mind me.
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Originally posted by theghost View Post
The Steam-world does not revolve around Linux only.
You can't call Valve's data sampling broken or rigged simply because you don't like it's results. That's Trump style...
According to Valve's presentation [1], they have nearly 1.5Mio new users per month. 63% of all purchases are from NA/EU. In these regions, Linux is widely spread.
You can be sure that for these regions Steam's user acquisition is mostly saturated.
So most of the growth comes from Asia and SA. Especially in Asia Linux has no marketshare.
[1] https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articl...is-coming.9947
Others have pointed out the parallel with the increase of chinese users polled, and decrease of english users polled (which does not sound a realistic userbase increase/decrease in the slightest). If this statistic can be swayed so hard by just random selection, it's bullshit well before we can start talking about Linux.
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You can manually trigger the survey, there is a file that contains the last survey date, can't remember though if it's global or per account. Just edit the date and easy survey trigger. I think valve should just give the survey out every month.
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Well why would a gamer choose Linux over windows? This poll actually makes sense. Linux as a gaming platform still needs more games. It is actually just now that the hardware support is ready. The first vulkan only game is still to be released.
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Originally posted by GI_Jack View PostValve sees Linux as a insurance solution so its fate is not tied to Microsoft, as a Linux desktop would be an easier transition than going to a console, and Linux is free, and like they already do with SteamOS, they can ship their own customized for their own purposes. That isn't a bad idea. Especially for companies to develop around technologies to make porting easier like OpenGL or Vulkan.
Oh and in case some one from Canonical or RedHat reads this, desktop Linux needs lots of improvement on this area in order to attract serious people. For example, I use it exclusively for more than 10 years and still can not do what I could do easily with Windows back in the day when I used to game a lot. Serious gamers would have to have GUI utilities integrated in the OS in order to inspect and control the hardware (that includes the ability to install hardware drivers with a GUI and without messing with command line, sources and compilers). Utilities like the windows device manager the administrative tools, CPU and GPU monitoring and tweaking tools, etc. All GUI of course!
Another example in that regard, despite all the greatness of the AMD open source drivers, I as a user feel mostly powerless. The only user friendly way for me to update them is to upgrade the whole OS every six months. Even then I don't have a GUI to inspect whether the drivers work correctly or to configure them.
Last edited by zoomblab; 02 November 2017, 05:12 AM.
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Originally posted by theghost View Post
The Steam-world does not revolve around Linux only.
You can't call Valve's data sampling broken or rigged simply because you don't like it's results. That's Trump style...
According to Valve's presentation [1], they have nearly 1.5Mio new users per month. 63% of all purchases are from NA/EU. In these regions, Linux is widely spread.
You can be sure that for these regions Steam's user acquisition is mostly saturated.
So most of the growth comes from Asia and SA. Especially in Asia Linux has no marketshare.
[1] https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articl...is-coming.9947
... sigh.
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