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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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... It's also near an all-time high on a percentage basis going back to the early days of Steam on Linux when it had around a 2% marketshare but at that time the Steam customer size in absolute numbers was much smaller a decade ago than it is now. So if the percentage numbers are accurate, this is likely the largest in absolute terms that the Linux gaming marketshare has ever been.

Data from Valve: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam?platform=combined

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Good, now we need devs to officially support Linux.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

I noticed that wine/dxvk/proton works better than many native Linux versions. This is usually because the game studio does not think Linux is a priority and ships a half-assed implementation. Better to use the optimized version through wine/proton/dxvk.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I just want games officially supported for proton. Linux ABI is still way too inconsistent compared to Wines, and a bitch to work with. Not to mention, performance tends to be better on proton games lol.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

not really

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, "officially support" can just mean check if their game runs via proton on the Steam Deck at launch. Fine by me, that is the bare minimum I expect, but to be fair launch day support on linux is still a fairly new thing. Not something I would have expected just a few short years ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah a lot of that first wave of steam machine fueled linux gaming is filled with buggy games with dropped support, that dont run on modern hardware. Im sure there is an easier way for them to support native linux gaming, but given how mac gaming is supported Im fine with them supporting linux by making sure proton works and accepting bug reports from proton users.