Wait, If Windows is 96.21% and Linux is 1.96%, then MacOS is 1.83%?
Wouldn't that make Linux 2nd place?
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2023
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Before opening the comments, I spent several seconds contemplating if I should mention this, or if people would think I was some pedantic nerd dickhead and downvote me to hell. Glad someone else already covered this.
We still think you're a pedantic need dickhead, but we upvote you for that!
Pedantic / thread about Linux. You're safe, cuz.
Yeah, I contemplated mentioning it too, knowing I might come off as pedantic, but figured what the hell. Others must have noticed too, right?
Dude you are "root", you can do anything here! So don't waste time thinking next time, just (su)do!
It's OK this was cause OP has the permissions for it
I actually love the irony of this meme, as that's exactly what happened haha
This is a post from the future, after MacOS temporarily jumps to a whopping 2% after it gets its yearly single port of a 5 year AAA old game.
It's actually second now.
Linux now has more steam users than MacOS
Even if it's Steam Deck, this just goes to show that desktop Linux is totally viable; it just needs more commitment from companies
Maybe this is the year for desktop Linux!
It definitely is! Now I feel silly for calling it a year early, last year.
A stable ABI wouldn't hurt either though
.. Yes, but realistically the work to make the Linux ABI "more stable" can probably go to use elsewhere
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Math don't add up, Linux would be second because whatever else would only have 1.83.
Second place baby!
Even if it was all gamers, that'd push a lot of companies to care about Linux a whole lot more. Venn diagram of people who spend a lot of money in tech stuff and people who play games is almost a circle nowadays.
I've worked in server-side systems development for over a decade, in all sizes of company, and Linux has been ubiquitous on the server side for ages: it's simply the most problem free way of maximizing the hardware you have, not to mention cheaper (both upfront and TCO).
It's only on the desktop that it's not.
Yup, outside of the desktop, Linux rules the world.
I meant companies that make apps for desktop, like Adobe.
I don't even think Valve really care about Linux. At least not in the same way that Linux users care about Linux.
They just care about getting the costs of Steam Deck down, and don't want MS to go mental and pull the rug from under their business model.
I'm surprised by how much of my Steam library would work on the Deck, tbh. Out of nearly 1300 games, 407 are verified, and 931 are verified and playable. Be nice if you could stream the rest (either from your own PC or an external provider), but Geforce Now showed that was a minefield (I suspect due to exclusive streaming rights already being to sold to someone else) and publishers freaked the fuck out, despite it being none of their business where I run my purchased games.
They care about Microsoft not 100% controlling access to the platform Steam customers use. Valve cares about Linux because they need an escape strategy if Microsoft ever locks them out.
I thought they were going that way with Windows 11 S that prevented you using anything other than the MS Store, but it turns out you can just switch S mode off.
It would be mental for MS to do it. Their desktop dominance hinges entirely on people still being able to run the last 30 years or so of wonky old software.
You can stream from your own PC. They have remote play and Steam Link for android.
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I actually feel sorry for that first placed kid on the picture: he formally won but clearly feels beaten by the sheer enthusiasm of the 3rd place one.
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As much as #3?
So uncanny that in the Ubuntu bug tracker, bug #1 is Microsoft & bug#2 simply does not exist.
Does SteamOS count as Linux? How about Android?
Yes, SteamOS does count as Linux. Android does not. The Android and iOS Steam app is just for social features / store, not for playing games so neither show up on the survey.
SteamOS Holo, which is what the Steam Deck uses, makes up 42% of the Linux systems in the survey results.
Wow 42% is actually a lot less than I had imagined
Which OS is #2 then? MacOS is now behind Linux.
Windows 11 is #2
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linux all the way!
Doin my linux gaming thing since 2013
Who does Number 2 work for?
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