Linux just gained another .13% usage, while Windows lost .23. Another win for Linux
It’s interesting that windows 10 lost more than windows 11 gained, .09% of users jumped ship because they didn’t want windows 11
I don’t thing any of these changes are statistically enough to make these kind of assumptions
If you run Steam under Wine or variant under Linux which I assume many do, does that count as Windows or Linux?
I don’t think I’ve seen anyone run Steam through Wine. What would be the reasons for that?
Oh, does it allow you on Linux to download all games with the native client? On the Mac that doesn’t work, so then I run it through Wine.
It used to be common and useful. I did this even after Valve shipped a native Linux TF2 as at the beginning the Wine method gave better results on my hardware. But that time has long passed as Valve has integrated Wine (Proton) and in almost all cases the Linux native builds will outperform Wine (and Steam will let you use the Windows version via Proton if you want even if there is a native Linux build).
So while I suspect that there are still a few people doing this out of momentum, habit or reading old tutorials I am not aware of any good reasons to do this anymore.
But why would you run steam under wine? The games themselves make sense, but steam not so much.
Rounding error.
Chill! That’s only 2% in total. We can feel happy for Valve doing the pioneer work and maintaining software for Linux.
Percentages can hide the impact of tendencies. Steam has 132MM monthly active users, assuming the poll is a representative sample. Then, 2% is a bit over 2.6MM people using a linux device. This doesn’t include steamOS. That’s at least equivalent to an entire small country’s population using Linux.
Tbh for some reason I always assumed there were more Linux gamers than Mac gamers lol
Linux has always enjoyed better game support than MacOS. Even before Valve’s efforts, it was possible to get most games running - sometimes fine, but often with bugs or defunct features. Some games ran even better with wine than on a modern Windows installation of its time.
However, this does not mean it was easy.
“Arch Linux”
