Linux is life
Does SteamOS count as Linux? How about Android?
Does SteamOS count as Linux?
Why wouldnβt an Arch branch not be Linux?
How about Android?
Completely irrelevant because Steam games donβt run on Android.
Iβd say it counts as general user base, but does not count towards the Steam survey.
If Android share counts towards Linux gaming in general, then I think βLinuxβ as a whole (not necessarily versions or derivatives of Linux that users have the choice to install on their device themselves, however) wins handily. Thatβs because billions of people are all playing Clash of Legends of Heroes of Genshin Tower Puzzle Blocks Crash Deluxe, or whatever the fuck, on their Android phones.
The Android and iOS apps donβt actually run games, theyβre essentially just the store and community tabs + SteamGuard. The hardware survey explicitly exists to tally up what kinds of hardware is actually being used to play games on Steam, so thatβs why itβs not counted.
Why wouldnβt an Arch branch not be Linux?
Because itβs Valveβs own OS. They might consider being first-party sufficient reason to not to lump it in with its third-party cousins.
Itβs based upon the well established distro Arch, and thus still considered Linux. A distro is basically the Linux kernel with pre-installed packages. SteamOS only adds another layer of packages unto Arch afaik.
Because itβs Valveβs own OS.
Still a regular GNU/Linux distribution. Even entertaining the idea it being anything else is ridiculous.
Yes, SteamOS does count as Linux. Android does not. The Android and iOS Steam app is just for social features / store, not for playing games so neither show up on the survey.
SteamOS Holo, which is what the Steam Deck uses, makes up 42% of the Linux systems in the survey results.
This, but desktop linux users are on the step for 193rd place while excitedly screaming and holding a third-place sign. Steamdeck users are on the 3rd-place step while calmly playing their deck.
Iβm in this comment, and Iβm okay with that.
Itβs the year of the Linux desktop, yβall! Woohooohooo! Yeah! Rock on!
Fwiw Iβm in it too. Iβm not going to say what year was the year of Linux on the desktop for me, but it wasnβt a meme yet. And Iβve continuously run an actively used Linux desktop (or mostly laptop) since, often at work but always at home. I unironically prefer it to Windows and Mac, which I also also daily drive and consider to be worse in most ways that matter to me.
I think desktop Linux gamers are right to cheer for the Steamdeck, as its success translates quite directly to an improved gaming experience on desktop Linux. So yeah, the reason this meme is so clear to me is because I see it in the mirror each morning.
For personal use, I run a Linux PC, but for work I have to use Windows as my daily driver, and I still absolutely cannot stand Windows. Recently, Iβve had more issues with Windows installations than Linux ones. Which is ironic, considering everyone is always shitting on Linux for not offering the same out-of-the-box usability Windows does.
I use Windows, MacOS, and Linux everyday but my primary desktop has been Linux since I moved from OS/2 in I think 1996 or so. I have been a Linux user since 1992.
I have not really been a gamer since the StarCraft days though.
Wait, If Windows is 96.21% and Linux is 1.96%, then MacOS is 1.83%?
Wouldnβt that make Linux 2nd place?
Before opening the comments, I spent several seconds contemplating if I should mention this, or if people would think I was some pedantic nerd dickhead and downvote me to hell. Glad someone else already covered this.
Yeah, I contemplated mentioning it too, knowing I might come off as pedantic, but figured what the hell. Others must have noticed too, right?
