Steam For Linux Last Month Showed A Slight Rise In Usage

[johnc]

If Valve really wanted to people to move to Linux they would give special discounts only to Linux users, and special game give aways only to Linux users.

And have titles be pre-released on Linux like 24 hours or 48 hours before they come to Windows.

Before they do that they should focus on getting things to actually work on Linux. And by the looks of the lack of game updates and bug resolutions on github, that doesn't seem to be a top priority.

[uid313]

If Valve really wanted to people to move to Linux they would give special discounts only to Linux users, and special game give aways only to Linux users.

And have titles be pre-released on Linux like 24 hours or 48 hours before they come to Windows.

Windows is a better gaming platform, the drivers are more stable, the performance is better, there are more games, and it have more stuff that gamers care about such as Skype, Ventrilo, TeamSpeak, etc which doesn't exist for Linux or are of subpar quality.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Steam For Linux Last Month Showed A Slight Rise In Usage

The Steam Hardware Survey has been updated to reflect the April 2014 numbers. Last month, there were slightly more reported Linux users running Steam to obtain the latest Linux games...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTY3OTI