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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: 2) by forkazoo on Thursday May 28 2015, @08:21AM

    by forkazoo (2561) on Thursday May 28 2015, @08:21AM (#189006)

    I dunno what problems you have, but my nVidia card seems to work without too much trouble. I play a bunch of Borderlands2 on Linux, though I do wish that the characters synced between Windows and Linux, I don't think I've ever run into any graphics driver problems since I installed Steam. I don't think I spent any more time installing the proprietary drivers than I did under Windows. AMD drivers are pretty bad, but IME, that's always been true on any OS.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2015, @10:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2015, @10:53PM (#189376)

    My nVidia 9800GT is still chugging along just fine.