Latest Valve Data Puts Steam Linux Marketshare At 0.90%

[johnc]

Sorry, for 99.9% of the population, Windows is easier. This is why mobile devices and consoles have taken off in recent years: Ease of use. And Linux is not nor will ever be easy to use for the general user.

I think we were kind of hoping that's what SteamOS would be.

Of course, we've been hoping for Half-Life 3 for ten years, so we should have known better than that.

It looks like the future of "Linux gaming" will be relegated to Android.

[johnc]

I wonder if Valve already considers their "going Linux" a failure or do the prepare for something big?
To me it seems like there is no real progress or at least an announcement of a potential game changer of some kind.

It's just a bad feeling I have, that things are not going good and by that I don't mean the plain user statistics.

Examine it with hindsight: Valve did all the Linux bluster early on to send a signal to Microsoft. Windows is going to be just fine, so Valve has no need to pursue Linux anymore. They never had any interest in it other than protecting the Steam store, which is their cash cow.