Wait, If Windows is 96.21% and Linux is 1.96%, then MacOS is 1.83%?
Wouldn't that make Linux 2nd place?
Before opening the comments, I spent several seconds contemplating if I should mention this, or if people would think I was some pedantic nerd dickhead and downvote me to hell. Glad someone else already covered this.
We still think you're a pedantic need dickhead, but we upvote you for that!
Pedantic / thread about Linux. You're safe, cuz.
Yeah, I contemplated mentioning it too, knowing I might come off as pedantic, but figured what the hell. Others must have noticed too, right?
Dude you are "root", you can do anything here! So don't waste time thinking next time, just (su)do!
I actually love the irony of this meme, as that's exactly what happened haha
It's actually second now.
Linux now has more steam users than MacOS
Which, as an ex MacOS user, is a mindboggling fact it took this long.
I guess people just trying to do things with what they have. I had a friend who plays LoL on a Mac. She also used Steam on it but there were very few games.
Aren't modern Macs literally not able to run games due to them being arm?
ARM isn't the problem. Some games have native ARM ports, and x86 games can be run by Rosetta. It's not as fast as native, but broadly comparable with the performance of the previous gen Intel chips they replaced.
A bigger problem on macOS is that they dropped support for 32-bit software a few years ago in Catalina. Not a problem with newer games, but it decimated Mac users' Steam libraries.
And the biggest problem is that Apple just doesn't give a shit about gaming. Every few years, they claim they're going to do games, but quickly forget about it. They've never put decent video cards in Macs, and never hesitate to throttle hardware if proper cooling would mean a larger enclosure, so AAA games typically arrive on macOS years late, when second-rate or integrated video cards can run them.
If they actually cared, they'd have their own Vulcan implementation. Instead, they're focused on their own proprietary Metal API.
Basically, Apple and AAA game studios have been ignoring each other for decades.
Even if it's Steam Deck, this just goes to show that desktop Linux is totally viable; it just needs more commitment from companies
Maybe this is the year for desktop Linux!
Man I remember when KDE came out and us young naive kids thought "this is it... It's virtually identical to win95/98... But without the bsod"
I feel old.
Math don't add up, Linux would be second because whatever else would only have 1.83.
Second place baby!
But second place wasn't looking so saucy like the medal biting guy
I actually feel sorry for that first placed kid on the picture: he formally won but clearly feels beaten by the sheer enthusiasm of the 3rd place one.
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Even if it was all gamers, that'd push a lot of companies to care about Linux a whole lot more. Venn diagram of people who spend a lot of money in tech stuff and people who play games is almost a circle nowadays.
I've worked in server-side systems development for over a decade, in all sizes of company, and Linux has been ubiquitous on the server side for ages: it's simply the most problem free way of maximizing the hardware you have, not to mention cheaper (both upfront and TCO).
It's only on the desktop that it's not.
I don't even think Valve really care about Linux. At least not in the same way that Linux users care about Linux.
They just care about getting the costs of Steam Deck down, and don't want MS to go mental and pull the rug from under their business model.
I'm surprised by how much of my Steam library would work on the Deck, tbh. Out of nearly 1300 games, 407 are verified, and 931 are verified and playable. Be nice if you could stream the rest (either from your own PC or an external provider), but Geforce Now showed that was a minefield (I suspect due to exclusive streaming rights already being to sold to someone else) and publishers freaked the fuck out, despite it being none of their business where I run my purchased games.
They care about Microsoft not 100% controlling access to the platform Steam customers use. Valve cares about Linux because they need an escape strategy if Microsoft ever locks them out.
This, but desktop linux users are on the step for 193rd place while excitedly screaming and holding a third-place sign. Steamdeck users are on the 3rd-place step while calmly playing their deck.
I'm in this comment, and I'm okay with that.
It's the year of the Linux desktop, y'all! Woohooohooo! Yeah! Rock on!
Fuck yeah! Just like last year!
It’s the year of the Linux ~~desktop~~, handheld y’all! Woohooohooo! Yeah! Rock on!
Wait, I think that already happened with Android.
It's the Year of the Linux Handheld squared, then. We win twice.
Truly a Linux moment
Is that before or after Steam Deck users? Would it be higher than 1.96 if we included steam deck in the count?
Does SteamOS count as Linux? How about Android?
Yes, SteamOS does count as Linux. Android does not. The Android and iOS Steam app is just for social features / store, not for playing games so neither show up on the survey.
SteamOS Holo, which is what the Steam Deck uses, makes up 42% of the Linux systems in the survey results.
Wow 42% is actually a lot less than I had imagined
Does SteamOS count as Linux?
Why wouldn't an Arch branch not be Linux?
How about Android?
Completely irrelevant because Steam games don't run on Android.
Hint: :q!
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