Steam On Linux Starts 2018 With A Slight Increase In Gamers

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Steam On Linux Starts 2018 With A Slight Increase In Gamers

At least on a percentage basis, the Steam Linux marketshare grew slightly for January 2018...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Steam-Stats-January-2018

[mphuZ]

Wait a few days. Can be again corrected statistics, like last time.

[Templar82]

Do we have any idea how these stats are supposed to work? they seem to go up and down alot.

For example I have steam on both my windows and Linux partitions, am I counted as 1 in both groups?

[PackRat]

Ubuntu lts needs to keep their kernels up to date like fedora. Steam's official supported distro is Ubuntu lts gnome or kde. New user installs ubuntu lts has hardware problems because using old kernel that does not support new hardware. Alway's the same old story... User say's Linux sucks goes back to windows.

Steam for Linux needs more big titles and newer ones, not ancient games ported. Feral is doing a good job.

[dungeon]

Do we have any idea how these stats are supposed to work? they seem to go up and down alot.

It is random survey so depends who is surveyed

For example by statcounter Linux on Desktop per continent is used most in Europe and least in Oceania

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-...ktop/worldwide

1.43% worldwide, but world vary as per country it vary too so check also how countries vary, for example in Germany it is 3.18% Linux Desktop usage while in China that is 0.57% (sort of 6 times less) and so on... so if you like to make Linux stats look better then just do survey in Europe or if you want to be less or much less do survey anywhere else

Europe by percentages have least amount of Windows usage and also most by comparative percentages Linux is used there, etc... in last decade Linux usage doubled there, but OSX usage quadrupled and as a result of both - Windows clearly getting down

On the other side on steam survey, there are just too much chinese surveyed

Language Simplified Chinese 50.76% -13.14%

That is mine rule of thumb - if chinese go up linux go down and the opposite is true also

DebConf this year will be first time ever in Asia, so hopefully we can boost a bit these 0.73% Taiwan's numbers That is what it is, you need to do talks and a bit of marketing to improve lower than average areas or if nothing else at least to learn why usage vary so much

[ElectricPrism]

Literally just release a wine flatpak of PUBG and bam you're done (oh wait it's not FTP, then release a installer I guess)

[anarki2]

Ubuntu lts needs to keep their kernels up to date like fedora. Steam's official supported distro is Ubuntu lts gnome or kde. New user installs ubuntu lts has hardware problems because using old kernel that does not support new hardware. Alway's the same old story... User say's Linux sucks goes back to windows.

Steam for Linux needs more big titles and newer ones, not ancient games ported. Feral is doing a good job.

Nice theory, except for the fact that Ubuntu already keeps their LTS kernels up to date. Which is awesome coz now we can have breakages even mid-release. For instance, now with the 4.10 -> 4.13 bump they successfully broke SMBv3, awesome work. As always, Ubuntu delivers.

And maybe, just maybe, this incredible stability is the exact reason why gamers stay a f*ck away from Linux.

[dungeon]

Nice theory, except for the fact that Ubuntu already keeps their LTS kernels up to date. Which is awesome coz now we can have breakages even mid-release. For instance, now with the 4.10 -> 4.13 bump they successfully broke SMBv3, awesome work. As always, Ubuntu delivers.

And maybe, just maybe, this incredible stability is the exact reason why gamers stay a f*ck away from Linux.

Well upstream just changed default, that is how shit happens usually... for the fun - long story long

https://www.happyassassin.net/2017/1...l-version-fun/

Problem is different versions of Windows actually, as somewhere default is supported but somewhere don't - so fun is there

If you change or not change default, shit is both ways and depends on user and his Windows version... one will say "it is time, bump this up away" and other will say "please, no don't do it yet", etc... but at the end, here it is and now we are beautifuly borked with default which does not work for everybody

Maybe to note how Windows 7 mainstream EOLed, yes it is EOL since 3 years ago since January 13, 2015. ... 2 years more for W7 extended and after that it will go down to XP road

Regardless of this info, W7 is still most used on steam survey... and that is the funniest "fact" Because this looks even worse than XP now, it does not go down as it should be. Anyway we will see in next 2 years if 20%+ of W7 will dissapear somehow, since MS put EOL grave for Windows XP at about 19% usage worldwide In the same time we in Linux would cry to ever have this much, while MS was ready to lose these 19% no matter what

From 35% to 19% in two years (april 2012 to 2014), but W7 is at 41% right now with just 2 years to grave... 6% worse situation than with XP

Most people does not like changes too much, that is a golden fact... but sometimes changes must happen.

I really wish they'd do a 64bit steam client for 2018
It's not that much storage space, granted, but this is an easily-avoidable mess.

Maybe 2018. - maybe up to 2020... it is always question when it is right time to break some users

[theriddick]

PUBG could really benefit from a Linux release with a option to join only Linux based clients! The game has a cancer atm, and that cancer is nuke! I mean cheaters.. But yeah if you could play with just the LINUX community it sure would go a long way to enjoyment for that title!

[dungeon]

PUBG could really benefit from a Linux release with a option to join only Linux based clients! The game has a cancer atm, and that cancer is nuke! I mean cheaters.. But yeah if you could play with just the LINUX community it sure would go a long way to enjoyment for that title!

Just reading PUBG revews, Windows users complain also and seems this one prevailed:

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And i agree on that generally somehow, as if we lock chinese we will got our 1%+ of Linux usage back