https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

  • const_void@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Tell me why "market share" of commerical, proprietary games is important to Linux again?

    • LeFantome@programming.dev
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      11 months ago

      If you are a Linux user and like commercial games, you probably would prefer them to work on Linux.

      “Market share” on Linux aligns the vested interest of game makers and Linux game players. If the company thinks it can make money, it will do more to allow games to run, or at least do less to stop them.

    • itsPina [he/him, she/her]
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      11 months ago

      Steam market share is honestly probably a decent metric for adoption rate of Linux as a whole.

      • Tak@lemmy.ml
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        11 months ago

        The fluctuation in Simplified Chinese use makes me pretty suspect here. It was nearly cut in half in one month and suddenly 20% of Steam's users that used Simplified Chinese just didn't exist.

        Honestly that big of a fluctuation in regional selection tells me none of the other data means anything.

        • UprisingVoltage@feddit.it
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          11 months ago

          Linux can be used to play commercial games > more people daily drive to linux > more companies port their software to linux > even more people switch to linux > Windows/macOS duopoly breaks, losing to open source alternatives

          I'm not saying playing call of duty on the deck will make windows fall, but it's a start

    • GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      A lot of people only play games on their computer, hence running linux doesn't make sense if they can't play games on it

      • nous@programming.dev
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        11 months ago

        Yup, a big excuse I used to see a lot was

        I would like to run Linux, but I want to game more so will stick to Windows

        And this has changed a lot with what valve has done which opens Linux to a much larger market of people that can now use it for their usecases.