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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: 3, Informative) by CoolHand on Thursday May 28 2015, @09:52PM

    by CoolHand (438) on Thursday May 28 2015, @09:52PM (#189350) Journal
    I have over 50 Linux games on Steam that I acquired through Humble Bundle and then used the Steam keys from Humble Bundle to add the games in Steam. So, with all those at least, I could always re-download my games individually if Valve/Steam went under. Now the other 100+ Linux games that I rented from Valve may or may not have issues if that happened, but it at least isn't all or nothing..
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