Linux has reached 2.32% in Steam Hardware Survey for May 2024

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I run Bazzite. We are sort of the same.

I wish I could... it's not being sold on my country :(

*8.1

Due to the optimizations Windows 8.1 is my favorite Windows version. When I compared it to Linux Mint 21 Cinnamon on my old (now dead) laptop, it performed slightly faster. It also somehow beat Windows XP which is what that thing was made for. Although a part of that could have been that half of the drivers only worked in XP, so it had more to load.

Maybe if they properly called it Windows 9, it would have caught on. It was definitely different enough from 8.

I think Linux reached 0.8% in 2018 iirc.

It's definitely accelerated a bit in the last two years.

Alas, all it takes is for Microsoft to tone down the insanity before it will plateau again. So best hope for now is too increase it as much as possible by welcoming refugees before Windows 12 comes out. Maybe gain another percent or two.

Thanks for pointing that out! I made it into a shitty meme over at !linuxmemes@lemmy.world

That is Valve's doing. I wouldn't have made the switch without proton.

The other part is... KDE is more "windows" than windows. Lol.

And that’s the most naïve way of looking at it. With more data you may be able to see if Linux users favour certain genres of games over others, so the number may be a lot higher than 2% for your game in particular.

There were some reports from game devs who said that the big reports from Linux users was worth it just for that.

https://playingtux.com/articles/developers-dv-rings-saturn-very-satisfied-bug-reports-linux-users?lang=en

He actually pulled together stats for it all, and it was 5.8% sales making 38% of the big reports, which tended to be high quality.
So from his experience as an independent game dev, he said it was worth it just for the QA you get out of it.

I think a lot of the libraries and tooling being updated to be more platform agnostic helps too. It's not "press button to support Linux", but it's getting a lot easier than needing to rewrite your engine for every platform.

English speaking it's a solid 5% now, so I'd say it's one in twenty.

No it is not. MS stopping 10 support early sucks, but the average user doesn't know or care.

For reference, by the same point in Win10's lifetime, 40% of users were still on Win 7, and by the time they stopped Win7 support it was 20% still. Phone manufacturers advertising ongoing software support has made this a bit more relevant or prominent, but most PC users will only update as their OS tells them to, and if the OS goes silent they'll just keep chugging along. We know this, it's how it's been forever. "People still on Windows 7" was a bit of a meme even at the time.

Hmm. What games are for Mac OS? I have never played a game on a mac ever. Not even seen what can be played.

One of my old boxes is still win7. I'm never upgrading it and I keep it as a media thingo. I have an xp box in the garage somewhere, but I may have cannibalized the parts at some point. I'm pretty sure it works.

If you look into the data Steam OS Holo s listed and it is 45.3%. Arch separately is second at 7.9% and then third is the Flatpak installs across all Linux versions at 6%.

The changes are more difficult to interpret as Linux is growing overall so changes between Linux distros are difficult. For example a small decline in overall share may still represent an increase in total numbers. While Steam OS is up another 3% points, other distros combined are up more - Ubuntu and PopOS combined are up 5% points. That suggests the Linux growth is split between Steam Deck and PC users rather than purely one or the other dominating.

@Vincente @mr_MADAFAKA I think no, it's not. If you go into Steam statistics and ask to only show the results per OS, you can see the statistics only for Linux. There you can see how much of each Linux distro is being used. Arc is not the first.