Linux overtakes macOS users on Steam thanks to Steam Deck

I love my Steam Deck and Linux works surprisingly well with gaming nowadays...

But let's be fair here, given the abysmally bad number of games available for macOS, the fact that it surpassed the Mac install base isn't really surprising or big.

I really hope the Linux area keeps growing and helps push for like better drivers.

This is awesome. As someone that games on all 3 platforms, I’m happy to see that Linux usage has gone up so rapidly, even if it is only because of the steamdeck. It’s a great way to introduce people to the wonders of Linux! And yes I do game on my MacBook. The sims lol, it is actually nice to have SOMETHING to play when I feel like not working. And a surprising # of my favorite games work on Mac wonderfully like cities skylines and the 2 point games and many more. I’m always happy when any platform other than windows can play games as collectively these smaller platforms need to dethrone windows, in my opinion.

And yet some developers decide to pour over resources to make a MacOS native port over a Linux port

I've been gaming on Linux for a while now. The pace of improvement in Proton has been staggering since the steam deck was released. I noticed the other day that I've gotten so used to games just working now that I don't even bother to check to protonDB before I purchase. I'm sure that won't bite me any time soon -_-

Just in time to exit Windows due to their "telemetry" programs.

The gaming support is what got me to completely switch to Linux for daily driver. Havnt used windows in 3 years thanks to proton. My computing experience has never been better.

More like "...thanks to years of neglect by Apple."

I'm as happy as you all, but having a teenager that starts to mod games, I realize the whole modding ecosystem of many popular games is Windows only.

Many peoples say you should play on pc because of modding. I would say from a Linux perspective, having the modding community switching to Linux is the next big step.

The thing that suprises me in the headline: You can actually run steam and games on macOS?

Is this finally the year of Linux "Desktop"...?

🥳🥳🥳

Steam deck and my desktop. The only thing that would be useful is if I could find a program that would work with excel macros for union business. I basically have always used computers for gaming and browsing.

NGL, I'm surprised macOS was even ahead of Linux given Apple's deep-seated, cultural disinterest in gaming.

NGL I thought this was already the case lol

Vamos!

This is kind of like saying you’ve beet a Toyota Prius on the track.

and there was much rejoicing!

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Gaming is the only reason I still bother to install windows on desktop PCs.

The topic of market share, and ports and lack of them, are nuanced but I highly doubt Linux won't overtake macOS even more each year unless Apple wakes up. Valve and Linux community are a force to be reckon with. There are other individuals in the scene as well, who are chipping away at improving the gaming ecosystem, such as System76, Redhat and Canonical.

I switched to Windows for gaming this year. With advances in Wine/Proton it was super easy; there's nothing I play that isn't perfectly convertible to Linux anymore.

Even using an Nvidia card in my desktop seems fine.

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I doubt that will last long with the introduction of the game developer tool kit and the next macOS