What happened in squint eyes March 23?
After looking at the other graphs, it coincides with a spike for simplified Chinese, which means for some reason a lot of people in presumably china were way more active on that month.
Valve screws up the survey surprisingly often. As you said, usually PC cafes (which are very popular in Asia) skew the data when that happens.
Steam Deck was a huge W for Linux gaming.
I just want to be able to buy them from reputable merchants in Australia
Can’t you just buy it from Steam? Or used?
Not from steam no, used yes.
I’d consider a second hand one if I found a good deal, plus a long drive to collect.
ROG Ally for example I can go down to the hifi store and they have them. I’m waiting to see also how the software support evolves.
This isn’t a linear trend. Probably a slightly geomtric trend. Source: I turned my phone sideways to analyze the line.
I’m in this graph and I like it.
I will be in this graph very soon, just need to load the drive into the case and hook it up 🥳 (Soon to be) bye Bill Bing(Gates)!
Are… are we the
baddiesone percent?The smart 1%
I found more interesting is already bigger that mac os
Don’t you have to pay for Wine on Mac?
Steam deck go brrr
Why is it declining rn?
Stars moved
It’s a percentage so likely one of the other groups expanded. Guessing the dip is due to more MacOS users.
Statistical noise. The survey isn’t accurate enough to overanalyze every data point; that’s what the trend line is there for.
Hopefully the data here only consists of desktop Linux users. If it includes SteamOS users then it kind of skews the data…
Edit: Jesus, so much hostility right off the bat. Chill the fuck out people. I don’t hate Linux and I’m not even upset. I’m talking about statistics—it says “on Steam”, and thus any data that is by definition a part of Steam is a form of statistical bias. It’s a part of Steam, so of course it’s going to be “on Steam”. It skews the reliability of the graph.
But why? It is a full Linux distro. All games compatible to the Steam deck also run on other distros. So the motivation to develop for Linux is the same and we users of other destroy profit from that the same.
In what fucking way does a Linux OS skew the data for Linux OS usage?
It’s Linux though?
Yes. And it has package manager.
Why? Is it annoying to you that there is finally some device with out of the box usable Linux for gaming?
Looks like SteamOS is about 50% https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam?platform=linux
Don’t know how that would be. A gain for the Steam Deck is a gain for everyone else on Linux too.
Look for a large spike, that’d be the deck.
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this 1.63 could be 90% if it wasn’t for companies like valve but sure, let’s celebrate some useless proprietary app on the linux sub
Companies like valve, but not valve, they deserve criticism but not this one. They have worked and invested a lot in open source projects for compatibility with windows apps and graphics performance in general.
Since videogames are very popular nowadays, their work and active support is really valuable to attract and retain users.
Microsoft owns github and google run android. They have worked and invested a lot in open source projects except they do it only out of convenience and it’s just a fraction of what they actually do. Making proprietary software available for linux only extend companies reach.
I didn’t realize this was a FOSS only sub
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Okay then, let’s not celebrate the main driving force behind gaming on Linux.
I would argue the main driving force behind gaming on Linux are these dev who publish their games for linux
Right, because today’s Linux gaming landscape is dominated by titles like… uh… Kobo Deluxe?
By that definition there is no gaming on Linux.
Why? I’m really curious why you think that. Or what do you mean with this comment.
Steam policies are against everything linux stand for. It’s a closed source third party launcher where they rent games under DRM and steal all sort of data while doing so. Valve created a small monopoly in wich videogames makers are abducted in routing their games through their useless launcher to get some visibility. They also abducted people to install their proprietary app to play certain games.
This is going to be a surprise to you, but proprietary software is indeed allowed to exist on Linux.
The only open source and DRM free way to get games is by pirating them. That’s not Valve’s fault, that’s the fault of the current copyright system. It would be nice if the Steam client was open source but that’s also about all they could do. Banning DRM on Steam would just lead to big publishers using their own launchers exclusively and indie games don’t use DRM anyway. Let’s also not forget that Valve is contributing a lot to open source projects.
The only open source and DRM free way to get games is by pirating them
Are you sure you know what the source code is? There are plenty of foss games:
https://libregamewiki.org/Main_Page
Valve pushed drms on the game industry, before they monopolized the market you used to buy the cd or install a game without the need of a useless proprietary launcher
Linux doesnt stand for anything. Something being foss just means it’s accessible.
Linux comes with a license, read that.
I’ve read it. Nothing prescribes a foss philosophy outside of Linux itself. Or for that matter a dickhead attitude to those who don’t subscribe to one.