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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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Linux Usage on Steam Continues to Decline
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Orion Blastar on Thursday May 28 2015, @01:39AM
There was supposed to be a lot of Linux ports of popular games on Steam. They didn't happen either.
Linux and MacOSX usage went down because more games for Windows exist so people went back to using Windows for their games. MacOSX can only be used with Apple branded hardware and they got rid of the ATX design of the Mac Pro so they cannot upgrade the video card like they used to which put a big dent in OSX gaming. Why build a hackintosh when you could just run Windows and play more video games on Steam?
Steam Machines got sold but with Windows instead of SteamOS.
Drivers and compatibility with Kernels and X is really a big issue on Linux and it hasn't been solved yet.
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Thursday May 28 2015, @02:52PM
I have to be somewhat careful about the GPU I pick but it isn't bad.