According to these new numbers from Valve, the Linux customer base is up to 1.96%, or a 0.52% jump over June! That’s a huge jump with normally just moving 0.1% or so in either direction most months… It’s also near an all-time high on a percentage basis going back to the early days of Steam on Linux when it had around a 2% marketshare but at that time the Steam customer size in absolute numbers was much smaller a decade ago than it is now. So if the percentage numbers are accurate, this is likely the largest in absolute terms that the Linux gaming marketshare has ever been.

Data from Valve: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam?platform=combined

  • zer0@thelemmy.club
    929·
    1 year ago

    So awesome they run a monopoly on videogames through their useless closed source spyware.

    • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
      221·
      1 year ago

      Well, their position is what allowed them to do so much for Linux. And their desire to distance themselves from Microsoft, which I’m absolutely on board with.

        • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
          12·
          1 year ago

          Of course they did it because it benefits themselves. But it doesn’t only benefit themselves, which is more than you can say about many others.

      • zer0@thelemmy.club
        413·
        1 year ago

        The only desire they have for is money, this is the same company that doesn’t mind promoting gambling to kids. Their stupid ass closed source launcher that shouldn’t exist needed to run software is a million light years away from what Linux stand for

        • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
          11·
          1 year ago

          There are other colours than black and white, you know?

          I fully agree that Valve has their share of issues. There’s things I too don’t like about them, but that doesn’t mean the good they do is worthless.

            • Zetta@mander.xyz
              9·
              1 year ago

              “This program is spyware because it collects huge amounts of user information, including but not limited to your Home Address, Telephone Number, Credit Card Number, and Internet Search History. Steam also profiles your hardware, communications through Steam’s social networking features, and contains a mandatory self-updater. Steam will not work without an internet connection.”

              Seems like they need to collect your address, telephone, and credit card number to process payments? Steam is it’s own internet browser, so the browser data it collects is from itself, not your personal browser.

              You seem paranoid and this website seems to be incorrect or purposely stating things in a misleading way, oh and steam does work without and Internet connection

              • zer0@thelemmy.club
                15·
                1 year ago

                Steam shares your informations with third parties. Zetta you don’t seem to mind much so why don’t you tell us your real name, give us your home address, your telephone number and post a log or your search history? Don’t tell me you are paranoid

            • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
              6·
              1 year ago

              Did I ever say that I like how much data they collect? No.

              That is absolutely one of the things I greatly dislike.

    • lukini@beehaw.org
      8·
      1 year ago

      It’s not useless. None of the launchers are. I greatly appreciate the auto updating of games, earning achievements, among others things. Sure they have issues, but they would have been dethroned years ago if people didn’t like their software compared to companies like Epic.