Linux Appears To Lose Some Gaming Marketshare With Valve's October Stats

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux Appears To Lose Some Gaming Marketshare With Valve's October Stats

With the start of a new month comes updated figures from Valve about their Steam hardware/software survey statistics...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...s-October-2016

[boltronics]

Must be because I was playing Grim Dawn under Wine. Sorry!

[techsupp82]

for those who can buy linux games, https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articl...ux-sales.4675/

[eydee]

Let's see the top sellers list on the store page.

Top seller games available for windows: 10/10
Top seller games available for linux: 1/10 (and it's cs:go...)

I'm sure this would make many people try alternatives.

[johnc]

This is pathetic.

[suberimakuri]

Just got my first survey on Linux in a couple years. Shrug...

[BangoMopar]

This is pathetic.

Yes it is, assuming the Linux numbers are remotely reliable. I have my doubts.

[Truth]

Number of Windows customers goes up, Linux customers static = percent share will still drop.

There, you can stop with the conspiracies now.

[starshipeleven]

This is pathetic.

Yeah, steam survey is pathetic.

[remm]

Yeah, steam survey is pathetic.

Why is it pathetic ? 1% is still a huge amount of people anyway.