Linux Gaming

15825 readers

93 users here now

Gaming on the GNU/Linux operating system.

Recommended news sources:

Related chat:

Related Communities:

Please be nice to other members. Anyone not being nice will be banned. Keep it fun, respectful and just be awesome to each other.

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

poVoq@slrpnk.net

Quintus@lemmy.ml

mudle@lemmy.ml

Steam On Linux(1.96%) Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS(1.84%) (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 year ago by testworldlemmy@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

9 comments fedilink hide all child comments

top 9 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] spyjoshx@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just tried Steam for Mac the other day, and there is a very good reason why it's so low. Modern macs don't even let you play games made for Mac!! Since 32-bit support was dropped, you pretty much can't play any Source games like HL2 or Gmod.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, most of my games don't work on macOS (I think ~1/4 do?), and most of my games do work on Linux (>3/4). So I don't use my Mac (work computer, my boss is cool with it) for gaming and instead use Linux.

[–] topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can get a steamdeck and stream it on your mac :)

[–] spyjoshx@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Oh I know. I have a linux laptop that I use for gaming. I'm just going to a party where we plan to play gmod and some of the others don't have laptops so I thought I'd see if my Mac would be suitable. It wasn't.

[–] noodlejetski@geddit.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to these new numbers from Valve, the Linux customer base is up to 1.96%, or a 0.52% jump over June! That's a huge jump with normally just moving 0.1% or so in either direction most months...

so I assume it was at 1.44% in June, which means... like a 35% increase?

[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

There was a pretty big dip a 1 or 2 months ago, so I would just classify this as being margin of error, especially with such small percentages

[–] Questy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm one of these stats, I switched to Linux as a daily driver on my gaming setup a few months ago. I kept the windows drive installed in the box, but it's way more lonely than I thought it would be.

[–] Dettweiler42@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The Steam Deck is the biggest contributor to this number. According to the article, 42% of Linux users on Steam are Deck users.

[–] sake@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I hate to say it, but the only thing that can explain this kind of sudden jump is error in data.