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

  • Cethin
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    121 year ago

    The deck has a lot to do with it whether people are playing on it or not. It’s the thing that’s made them make the big push into supporting games on Linux, which applies to other distros than just the Steam one.

    • @erwan@lemmy.ml
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      111 year ago

      It also pushes developers to ensure their games run on Linux, even if it’s through Proton

      • @Holzkohlen@feddit.de
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        31 year ago

        You have to glad when they don’t implement their own crappy launcher nowadays. Looking at you Bioshock Remastered! (btw, you can skip it via the launch options)