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Linux Usage on Steam Continues to Decline

posted by janrinok on Wednesday May 27 2015, @11:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the wheeee! dept.

Celestial writes:

It looked for a little while there two years ago that gaming on Linux was finally beginning to take off, mostly thanks to Valve. That push seems to quickly be evaporating. Valve's latest Steam statistics shows that usage of both Linux and MacOS X on Steam is declining, while Windows usage is actually gaining. Linux usage on Steam is down to 0.94% from 1.05% last month, while Windows usage is up to a whopping 95.81%. Was that push for SteamOS in particular and gaming on Linux in general just all smoke?

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by slinches on Wednesday May 27 2015, @11:46PM

    by slinches (5049) on Wednesday May 27 2015, @11:46PM (#188860)

    I think the drop off is due to the complete lack of progress on SteamOS and the Steam Box in the last year or so. Until those start to actually be produced, the only install base you have to pull from are current Linux users, which is somewhere around 1-2% of the desktop/laptop market. Not surprising that the number is less than that. I expect it to continue to drop as the novelty wears off and fewer and fewer Windows users test out Steam on Linux.

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