Valve Revises Steam's December 2020 Linux Marketshare To 0.74%

[xen0n]

I thought in order for Chinese citizens to use steam, valve would need to release a special version of steam for that market which is rife with propaganda (something CCP insist on).. Maybe they already do that? but if so then why the Chinese data being factored in with global client? very odd.

The official Steam client is not banned by the Great Firewall, even multiple download mirrors are available. And the "special client" thing never went anywhere, the motive stagnated from the very beginning, no news since then. I won't comment on the "propaganda" thing, false thing aside, why not use the "censorship" word instead, at least that's what the local Steam communities are concerned about

But I think majority of Chinese Steam users are indeed Windows users, because the local tech giants don't release Linux versions of their apps (think Tencent QQ and such). I am Chinese, play Steam games, and don't have a single copy of Windows in my home, but I never received a Steam HW survey last year. (Maybe once? )

[iewuavix]

Do they count people who use steam on wine as Linux market share? I have had better mileage by running some games under wine over using Proton from within steam, in part I think because it is easier to tune wine settings than proton settings. Some improvements here could make me change my mind.

It would also be interesting to see how many of their users would prefer Linux even though they are not using Linux.

But additionally I also switched mostly to using gog.com, even buying some games there that I already owned on Steam, mostly because it is easier to rapidly iterate on wine prefixes if you have the installer files as opposed to having to re-download the game files all the time.

[HEL88]

It looks like a half of those new Chinese users were just bots or something, 47.18% (+30.22) dropped to just 31.07% (+11.88).

Maybe, but Linux went down 0.18%. Simple conclusion. Nobody cares about this system on the desktop.

[obri]

This market share measurement is sadly a strange black box.

This revising of numbers makes me wonder how accurate it may be - or not.

[Mike Frett]

Maybe, but Linux went down 0.18%. Simple conclusion. Nobody cares about this system on the desktop.

So why are you here, just trolling by?

[HEL88]

So why are you here, just trolling by?

Because I use linux on server, but for desktop is very poor system this statistic confirms it.

[mozo]

It's great for desktop, don't spread this bullshit please.

[iewuavix]

Because I use linux on server, but for desktop is very poor system this statistic confirms it.

I have used it exclusively for desktop for years, it is just fine.

[HEL88]

It's great for desktop, don't spread this bullshit please.

Yes, for work IT stuff. Eventual as you do nothing more than the browser. For me linux lacks ton of software.

[mozo]

This is not true. Linux is my main OS for 15 years and it's great. Windows is ugly, slow, bloated, insecure and inconvenient pile of crap.