Steam's February Survey: AMD CPUs & GPUs Continue To Dominate For Linux Gamers

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Steam's February Survey: AMD CPUs & GPUs Continue To Dominate For Linux Gamers

With Steam on Linux use for January clocking in at 1.95%, I was very eager to see if the February results would once again surpass the 2.0% threshold... Unfortunately, it moved in the opposite direction...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-February-2024

[HEL88]

Let's look at the share of Linux dektops/laptops:

Linux - 1.76
AMD 0405 in Linux - 0.35

1.76 * (1-0.35) = 1.135%

Not bad for a system that has everything better than the competition and is in addition free and present on steam for 10 years

The February 2024 Steam Survey results show Linux sliding by 0.19% down to 1.76%...

Sure enough, looking at the language breakdown shows Simplified Chinese increasing by 7.6% in the Steam Survey and all other languages dropping.

The Chinese don't seem to like Linux on the desktop. On the other hand, they have made tremendous economic growth over the last 20 years.

Indians seem to like Linux on the desktop. And they have made many times less growth.

Could there be a correlation? The more the public uses from Linux the less economic growth they have .
(instead of focusing on the real work of its quality and productivity, it's millions of people wasting time solving problems that don't exist elsewhere)

[vextium]

Let's look at the share of Linux dektops/laptops:

Linux - 1.76
AMD 0405 in Linux - 0.35

1.76 * (1-0.35) = 1.135%

Not bad for a system that has everything better than the competition and is in addition free and present on steam for 10 years



The Chinese don't seem to like Linux on the desktop. On the other hand, they have made tremendous economic growth over the last 20 years.

Indians seem to like Linux on the desktop. And they have made many times less growth.

Could there be a correlation? The more the public uses from Linux the less economic growth they have .
(instead of focusing on the real work of its quality and productivity, it's millions of people wasting time solving problems that don't exist elsewhere)

Genuine question why are you on a forum about FOSS news if you don't like Linux lol

[equareo]

Step 1: Release Winnie the pooh game
Step 2: Steam banned in China
Step 3: Year of the linux desktop

[NeoMorpheus]

AMD Radeon graphics continue to dominate the most popular Linux GPU list in the Steam Survey.

Ngreedia white knights coming in hard!

[ReaperX7]

If we could somehow get anticheat software supported, we could land tons of users. That problem alone is turning off users. If GNU/Linux could get Wine and Proton to work with Fortnite, PUBG, and such MMOs that use these anticheats properly supported, that number would go up... Significantly.

[Daktyl198]

If we could somehow get anticheat software supported, we could land tons of users. That problem alone is turning off users. If GNU/Linux could get Wine and Proton to work with Fortnite, PUBG, and such MMOs that use these anticheats properly supported, that number would go up... Significantly.

The worst part is that most anticheats do work. EAC and BattleEye work if devs let them, xigncode (korean anticheat) works out of the box, as does nprotect. VAC also works, obviously. Those 5 make up the vast majority of anticheats in games. It's just that devs who use EAC don't enable Proton support by default just to be spiteful.

Apex Legends enabled Proton support and admitted that the number of cheaters never went up. They can see which users are using Proton, and said that Proton users basically never cheat, but that doesn't matter for other games apparently.

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

If we could somehow get anticheat software supported, we could land tons of users. That problem alone is turning off users. If GNU/Linux could get Wine and Proton to work with Fortnite, PUBG, and such MMOs that use these anticheats properly supported, that number would go up... Significantly.

Anticheat is arguably better for the user on Linux too, because we don't have to put up with kernel driver shenanigans that some of these use on Windows. I will always remember playing a game with EAC enabled on Windows on an old Z840 with 28 cores / 56 threads. It blue screened and there was some horrendous error about CPU poisoning. I only play that shit on Linux now.

[avis]

If we could somehow get anticheat software supported, we could land tons of users. That problem alone is turning off users. If GNU/Linux could get Wine and Proton to work with Fortnite, PUBG, and such MMOs that use these anticheats properly supported, that number would go up... Significantly.

Anticheat for Linux cannot work or exist period. The architecture is far too open for meddling.

[dlq84]

Genuine question why are you on a forum about FOSS news if you don't like Linux lol

Some people simply thrive on attention, negative or not, they don't care.

Ignoring those kinds of people is the best cure.