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

  • erwan@lemmy.ml
    11·
    1 year ago

    It also pushes developers to ensure their games run on Linux, even if it’s through Proton

    • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
      3·
      1 year ago

      You have to glad when they don’t implement their own crappy launcher nowadays. Looking at you Bioshock Remastered! (btw, you can skip it via the launch options)

      • BearJCC@lemmy.sdf.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        I have not found a way to bypass Larian Studios launcher in launch options but you can make a shortcut to the exe directly.