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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2015, @02:25AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2015, @02:25AM (#188913)

    DRM

    Add to that Steam's cluelessness [google.com] charging for something that had previously been gratis.
    I wouldn't be surprised if a plot of new Steam+Linux users shows an inflection point that week.
    Maybe committed Steam+Windoze users accept that sort of thing more readily.

    Steam/Linux really needed to get a lot of converts from Windows

    Yup--and that would require something that Just Worked being ready and for sale in quantities.
    Steam dropped the ball not having that available during the gift-giving holidays.

    -- gewg_