Steam On Linux Drops Below 2% For August 2024 Survey

[aviallon]

Valve really needs to be more transparent on what subset of users they hold these surveys for. I havent gotten a single survey prompt in my 5+ years on desktop Linux... Do they scan all users hardware nowadays?

No. I didn't get a survey since 2017, and I used a technique found on Reddit which consists on modifying the "last time you had a survey" date to be exactly one year ago.
Restarted Steam, and boom, got a survey.

[jaypatelani]

Steam should go with NetBSD

[highball]

Michael at least to me a graph showing the monthly data over the last two to three years (with maybe a running everage or trend line) would be far more interesting. Could you consider including something like that?

Liam on GamingOnLinux tracks this data. SteamTracker

[NeoMorpheus]

Another month, another round of Steam Survey bullshit.

Until Valve decides to reveal the correct numbers (they do know the exact amount of players registered+active+platform used) this monthly charade will continue.

We need a real way to count all active Linux users and that involves telemetry, which we dont allow.

So until then, enjoy the charade.

[ms178]

With EA dropping an anti-cheat update on Battlefield 1 and other games which will leave Linux gamers in the dust, I am not surprised that this might have a further negative impact on Linux gaming. Where is Valve or the Linux gaming community to prevent such moves?

[L_A_G]

This is fairly obviously the result of Black Myth: Wukong coming out and being a massive hit in China. Just the usual fluctuation that always happens when something becomes a hit in China and a natural end result with a country of 1.4 billion people who primarily play on PC/Windows. Its naturally going to be to be the equivalent of a 200kg gorilla in a bathtub to Steam user survey data.

So in other words; Its just China being... China...

[spykes]

Indeed it's the Black Myth: Wukong effect. The game is a huge hit with more than 80% of its players coming from China.

[luno]

With EA dropping an anti-cheat update on Battlefield 1 and other games which will leave Linux gamers in the dust, I am not surprised that this might have a further negative impact on Linux gaming. Where is Valve or the Linux gaming community to prevent such moves?

atleast Deadlock is working well and more fun than COD anyways

[Phoronos]

Linux is good, but not for games....Most of the games are native for windows only....
Game developpers should also port their games to linux....But they wont do it, because it is too expensive !!!
So linux will always stay bad for games until those games are ported to it natively.

[ole.mn]

Linux is good, but not for games....Most of the games are native for windows only....
Game developpers should also port their games to linux....But they wont do it, because it is too expensive !!!
So linux will always stay bad for games until those games are ported to it natively.

Proton came a long way my friend. Something not running on Linux/SteamDeck is the exception these days.

Games don't need to be developed natively for Linux anymore. As long as devs don't go overzealous with DRM, it just works. Proton is _that_ good.