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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: 2) by khedoros on Thursday May 28 2015, @08:27PM
Not one of my IT or programmer friends run Linux. They all have Macbooks and game on Windows PC's. That or they don't play games at all.
That's odd. About half of my IT/programmer friends run Linux, about a third have Macs, and about three-quarters also run Windows. Out of them, any that game have a Windows machine available. Most that program on their own time have Linux available. The Apple people tend to just want a trouble-free Unix.
Aside from the differences in the demographics of the people around us, I agree with you. Valve used SteamOS as a way to tell Microsoft that a closed garden wouldn't be acceptable. Some Linux users (like myself) had Windows Steam games, and liked the idea of gaming on Linux. Eventually, the novelty wore off, and the stampede to Linux didn't happen as the optimists hoped for. Most of us went with the pragmatic decision of going back to whichever OS actually supported what we wanted to run.