Steam's September Metrics See An Increase Following The Rollout Of Steam Play

[pal666]

We've already had several months with Steam Linux usage above 1% and several months where it fell below 0.7%. If its a steady growth for you

then you can't distinguish absolute and relative numbers

[pal666]

Linux isn't ready for the mainstream end-consumers.

most used by mainstream end-consumers operating system is linux, just not your distro, so linux was ready several years ago when android overtook windows.

[pal666]

There's a ton of work to be done.

that bullshit was debunked numerous times. you really have to treat your readers as idiots with latest tests from june 2014

[pal666]

Anything in particular that is wrong with it? Or it's just your feeling that it's wrong?

you are misrepresenting your flawed feelings as facts, that's what is wrong with it

[Alejandro Nova]

[...] Even if venders ship computers with Linux preinstalled, the distro would need to be rolling release and dependence on NVIDIA's proprietary drivers make it near impossible for the well-tested consumer grade distros to be rolling releases. If the distro wasn't rolling release, then people would have to reinstall linux every couple years or risk either updates stopping or breaking their computer during a distro upgrade. Also, we need flatpaks to mature and become widely adopted. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge advocate for Linux and refuse to use Windows or iOS, I just think that more work needs to be done.

Just run Fedora, and ship the thing with AMD Radeon graphics.

Also, Fedora has the most mature Flatpak implementation.

It's not ready, but we're getting there.

[dungeon]

Linux on the desktop was and remains a joke.

This is about steam, it is not about Linux on Desktop For that percentage, look here:

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

Wordwide 1.68%

Or per continent, in order:

Europe 2.23%
Asia 1.61%
N.America 1.36%
S.America 1.32%
Oceania 1.15%
Africa 1.04%

So, most in Europe and least in Africa... you can select per countries if you want that stat too.

India 3.97%
China 0.72%
Japan 0.68%
...
In some asian countries seems a lot more than average, while in some much less Random or in Europe also:

Greece 6.41%
Norway 5.04%
Germany 3.37%
Ireland 2.8%
Italy 2.32%
France 1.88%
UK 1.37%
Portugal 0.99%
...
Somewhere like this, somewhere like that That looks like to me how somewhere Linux Desktop is somehow much more popularised and somewhere not so much, since Windows usage is much more stable in comparison

[Weasel]

If the distro wasn't rolling release, then people would have to reinstall linux every couple years or risk either updates stopping or breaking their computer during a distro upgrade.

Same thing with Windows and yet it dominates the desktop scene. Quite the contrary to what you said: rolling release would be detrimental to it.

[muncrief]

Well, unfortunately none of my 23 games work on Steam Play, so I have a feeling that whatever bump there is will flatten out. Just like the temporary interest in Steam Machines petered out so quickly.

And the reason will be the same. Most games simply don't work, and Steam has never cared about that. They just announce something and then expect everyone to throw away the hundreds or thousands of dollars of games they have, and buy all new games that work with whatever new system they have.

But of course no one does that. They just go back to Windows.

Which is really a shame. Linux could be the predominant gaming platform if companies with big bucks like Valve would just give it a competent, and full fledged, try.

[torsionbar28]

This <1% is minuscule amount, and does not seem worth reporting unless its over 1-2%. My 2 cents

You don't know the amount. You know the percentage. You cannot derive the amount from the percentage. This <1% could be 10 users, or it could be 10,000,000 users.

[nanonyme]

Just run Fedora, and ship the thing with AMD Radeon graphics.

Also, Fedora has the most mature Flatpak implementation.

It's not ready, but we're getting there.

There's at this point good chances Flatpak 1.0 will be mainstream by the end of next Summer