Steam's Linux Marketshare Ended Slightly Lower For 2016

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Steam's Linux Marketshare Ended Slightly Lower For 2016

In addition to Valve publishing the top-grossing games on Steam for 2016, they have also published their Steam Survey statistics for December 2016...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=December-2016-Steam-Linux-Stats

[dungeon]

32bit Windows OSs users are double more than OS X and Linux users combined, so from profit POV it makes more sense to have 32bit exe than to making OSX/Linux ports

And we still wanna reinventing a BrokenLand wheel

Just look at AMD, 30+ drivers for Windows last year... while on Linux year was severely broken and their userbase nearly desintegrated

Obviosly, it is expected to go down

But Happy New Year anyway

[PublicNuisance]

I'm not so interested in if the overall percentage went down as I am inetrested if the overall number of Linux users went up. Very possible that Windows just saw more new users than Linux but that we still managed to grow.

[L_A_G]

Having a quick look at the GPU statistics it looks like AMD's 400 series seems to be selling at a pretty decent pace with the 480 steadily picking up steam since it's launch. Let's hope the initial Vega cards are as great as the prototype card AMD showed off at their Zen/Ryzen event playing Doom at 4k with ultra settings and frame rates consistently above 60 would suggest.

[dungeon]

Even VK is faster on WIndows for AMD, so future is bright... if it will be above 60 on WIndows, we will get above 45 fps and that only in case we also don't interfere somehow because of our diversive systems

[starshipeleven]

32bit Windows OSs users are double more than OS X and Linux users combined, so from profit POV it makes more sense to have 32bit exe than to making OSX/Linux ports

And we still wanna reinventing a BrokenLand wheel

Just look at AMD, 30+ drivers for Windows last year... while on Linux year was severely broken and their userbase nearly desintegrated

Obviosly, it is expected to go down

But Happy New Year anyway

Master5000 sockpuppet detected.

You are our sunshine, dungeon. Happy new trolling (year) to you too.

[dungeon]

Master5000 sockpuppet detected.

You are our sunshine, dungeon. Happy new trolling (year) to you too.

Troll talking to troll is the same as man to man... so, Happy Growing Schism At least New Year is right at the centre between east and west churches, where fork does not even know it is a fork

Like x32 arch, it is not 64bit nor 32bit but something in the middle... it sounds the best, but if we lose compat it is not good, it is better to have more for future but to be slower or it isn't? Couple extensions, instructions, intrinsics... you name it so whatever, will fix it just make sure they align to us and people will just forget

Nvidia GTX Ti - Tricks integrated Low level APIs proved that it is impossible to make common API without New Year, it will be generic anyway and people will forget again just don't tell them and process will go easer

Our users use composite, thus we did EXA and obsoleted XAA... and now we do generic glamor and DRI3 which is buggy but just do not tell them and they will forget more easier

KMS sounds fine, we will do it - and of course it will be slower then UMS but who cares just don't tell them and they will forget

Just push whatever and laugh around, someone will file bugs anyway

Problem of this troll is - he is old enough to remember all BS, so just don't tell him and he will break himself alone... and of course poeple will forget

Now really Happy New Year, so what is next we forgot to break or to break to forget?

[cj.wijtmans]

Linux software update model is different from the Windows model. Windows GPU driver updates are part of GPU marketing strategy. Linux GPU driver updates are silent compared to Windows.

What? No comment telling people to write their drivers with rust? Disappointing..

[cj.wijtmans]

I'm not so interested in if the overall percentage went down as I am inetrested if the overall number of Linux users went up. Very possible that Windows just saw more new users than Linux but that we still managed to grow.

Wanted to write the same thing.

[L_A_G]

Just look at AMD, 30+ drivers for Windows last year... while on Linux year was severely broken and their userbase nearly desintegrated

You really shouldn't compare the Linux and Windows drivers simply based on the number of new versions when the main features of most Windows versions are game-specific optimizations while all of the Linux releases are all focused on more fundamental additions and improvements, rather than something which will only be driver bloat a few years down the line.

Still, sad to see that DAL didn't make the cut for 2016, but I can hope this can be rectified not too far into this year.