Steam On Linux Percentage Receded A Bit Further In September

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Steam On Linux Percentage Receded A Bit Further In September

Back in May Steam on Linux usage crossed the 2% threshold and remained that way until August when it dropped back below 2% for all Steam gamers. The September 2024 Steam Survey results were just published and point to another downward bump for Steam on Linux gaming...

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

[Abacus123]

At this point the only major factor holding back GNU/Linux market-share on desktop is the absolute refusal of OEMs to preinstall it on their machines, plain and simple. Unless GNU/Linux vendors are willing to be more aggressive with their OEM partnerships, brands will continue to preinstall windows regardless of how increasingly crappy it's becoming. It doesn't matter how easy it is to install a distribution the fact that they need to be installed at all will always filter out 90+ percent of PC users. It sucks that only google with their chrome os distribution seem to be serious about having it preinstalled on mass market devices.

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

Black Myth: Wukong certainly contributed to the recent spike from China. Fun fact about that game, they have a standalone benchmark tool, and it works in Proton! It also supports FSR 3 / DLSS 3 / XeSS, along with ray tracing. It's still fairly chunky at around 8GB IIRC, but it's nice having an extremely recent game benchmark that supports a bunch of current gen tech, all for free and easy to grab from Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3132990/Black_Myth_Wukong_Benchmark_Tool/

[Luke_Wolf]

At this point the only major factor holding back GNU/Linux market-share on desktop is the absolute refusal of OEMs to preinstall it on their machines, plain and simple. Unless GNU/Linux vendors are willing to be more aggressive with their OEM partnerships, brands will continue to preinstall windows regardless of how increasingly crappy it's becoming. It doesn't matter how easy it is to install a distribution the fact that they need to be installed at all will always filter out 90+ percent of PC users. It sucks that only google with their chrome os distribution seem to be serious about having it preinstalled on mass market devices.

I think the OEMs are basically waiting on Valve, once SteamOS is available and Valve starts working with ASUS et al for their handhelds then that'll probably move into gaming laptops and from there expanding market share.

[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.

[HEL88]

Noisy fluctuation continues for the fourth month:

June: -0.24%
July: 0.00%
August: -0.16%
September: -0.06%
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Without handled Deck (only laptop and desktop) linux has:

1.87 * (1 - (0.26 + 0.134)) = 1.13% - not bad

[HEL88]

......another round of Steam Survey bullshit.

Leftist activists say the same thing about police statistics in the US.

Until Valve decides to reveal the correct numbers

For percentages, it doesn't matter.

The number of users is slowly growing.

[CochainComplex]

Got the survey this time. So feel free to tip me for my enormous contribution to the linux gaming community

[ms178]

EA forcing Linux-incompatible anti-cheat measures on older games didn't help. Valve should take action and work on a solution with these companies to ensure that Linux gamers won't get left behind.

[theuserbl]

At this point the only major factor holding back GNU/Linux market-share on desktop is the absolute refusal of OEMs to preinstall it on their machines, plain and simple.

... and with a cheap price.

There existing System76, Tuxedo, ixsoft and other companies, which selling Linux-computer. But they are more expensive, then buying a similar Windows computer in one of the big (online-)stores.
It sounds paradox, because Windows costs money in contrast to Linux. But I think, the reason is, that a lot of companies selling Windows computer with preinstalled third party anti-virus test-version and other preinstalled test versions, from which they receive money.