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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, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2015, @01:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2015, @01:48PM (#189075)

    If I have a game on CD or movie on DVD, I play it until I die it gets scratched, lost , or stolen, and then my heirs get to do the same help me move a ton of physical media every time I move or remodel my entertainment area and dig through all my crap when I die. Also, I love the hours spent keeping everything in order and organized, or digging through all the unorganized stuff looking for what I want. If I have a game on Steam or a movie on Amazon Instant Video, I get to play it as long as Steam/Amazon are in business and feel like letting me a constantly well organized collection with instant access to new items whenever I want, and zero effort when moving across the hall or across the country.

    FTFY

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  • (Score: 2) by linuxrocks123 on Friday May 29 2015, @12:36AM

    by linuxrocks123 (2557) on Friday May 29 2015, @12:36AM (#189419) Journal

    You can fit about 4 HD movies on a single-layer Blu-Ray. You can fit about 200 Blu-Rays in a medium-size box. If you have more than 2 boxes of Blu-Rays in your movie collection, you're a pack rat.