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

  • TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.comEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    I switched to Linux last year, and have been having a mostly smooth single-player experience. It’s not perfect, but the improvements that have been made in Linux gaming (in large part by Valve) are undeniable.

      • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
        13·
        1 year ago

        Plenty of people ask themselves that, which is precisely why so much work has been done to improve it.

        Like come one, just drop your attitude here.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        51·
        1 year ago

        It’s interesting that Lemmy is still small enough I can remember a shithead from yesterday with a certain username that is also being a shithead today…