Steam Survey Shows Linux Marketshare Hitting 1.0%

[pal666]

I enjoy local games. No need to pay for Steam, or any of its competitors.

steam is free, you don't have to pay for it

[HEL88]

That graphic is from an article which is four years old!

Yes, because I answered for statement:

There are more Linux users today as a percentage than there were 8 years ago,

Linux, 7-8 yeas ago was more popular as percentage than today.

So, linux fans as always they speak untruthfully, or more severely - lie.

are worth anything

yep, only what you say is woth a lot. Valve and steam is stupid you are clever.

[rene]

good that we just implemented cross compiling Wine to join the AAA gaming party https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgIgALjpXeU&pp=sAQA ;-)

[reba]

Nop,

The latest Steam Hardware Survey shows Linux market-share has declined again | GamingOnLinux

That graphic is from an article which is four years old!

You could ask Steam directly for up to date numbers:



However I don't think Steam survey numbers are worth anything, neither from artices that take them as a source nor using them for anything directly.

[HEL88]

There are more Linux users today as a percentage than there were 8 years ago,

Nop,

The latest Steam Hardware Survey shows Linux market-share has declined again | GamingOnLinux

[ezst036]

I've been hearing this for 8 years - LOL .

There are more Linux users today as a percentage than there were 8 years ago, and there will be more in 8 years from now. If you bothered to pay attention to the context of what I was saying, I said Windows 11 specifically will make people jump ship. And I stand by that.

Statcounter puts Linux currently at 2.4%. It was not as high as 2.4% 8 years ago. It will be bigger in 8 years.

[ezst036]

Can you please explain how being able to effortlessly deploy Full Disk Encryption is bad for users? Because that's what TPM2 allows for. Not only on Windows, but Linux too. You can finally forget about stupid "unlock keys" or even worse, USB keys, just let the TPM chip do the work.

The majority of notebooks made in the last 3 years have a TPM2 chip. All Ryzen CPUs have a built-in fTPM too. Many existing desktop motherboards have a TPM2 header, too. Requiring TPM2 is a non-issue blown out of proportion by the paranoid ones. It's not a disadvantage, it's an advantage.

It's like complaining if a new WiFi standard made WPA3 support mandatory. It's about friggin' time!

I cannot explain what is bad about TPM 2.0 to you, because the tech itself doesn't bother me. The tech is probably great, I don't know.

I don't like being bossed around. That's the problem is the bossiness. Apparently you do like being bossed around. There's no middle ground here, we will just have to agree to disagree.

[krzyzowiec]

Except it doesn't. Proton doesn't suffer from distro breakage, unlike most of the native ports, who will simply silently fail to start if they weren't compiled for your distro.
It is precisely the standard, backwards-compatible Linux runtime you were asking for.

Yeah it's actually funny how it worked out. Ever since DXVK and Vulkan became popular, I've found that Wine or Proton just work without issue. I have more weird issues with native Linux titles, probably because they were written with certain expectations that aren't valid anymore. Rather than keeping up with the rapid pace of change in the Linux world, it does make sense to target Windows and take advantage of Wine instead of porting. Maybe if there was a huge performance delta you could make the case for a native port, but I don't find that to be the case in the games I've played.

[macemoneta]

Maybe you misunderstood or I couldn't explain myself, I just meant that that survey doesn't reflect Linux users, but Linux players who use Steam.
Obviously this is also the case for Windows, I did not say otherwise.

In other words, it's a reflection of Steam gaming on Linux, not gaming on Linux.

[Charlie68]

So what? There are also Windows users who don't use Steam. So it should still give an indication of the relations.

Maybe you misunderstood or I couldn't explain myself, I just meant that that survey doesn't reflect Linux users, but Linux players who use Steam.
Obviously this is also the case for Windows, I did not say otherwise.