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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

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[–] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 135 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Thank god for Valve and how awesome they've been to Linux users

[–] Cyv_@kbin.social 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I really hope they release Steam OS for everyone soon. I'd love to install it on my laptop, currently running ChimeraOS which is functionally very similar, but would love to have the stuff like tdp control working in the overlays too without needing third party tools or workarounds.

[–] rbits@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

It would be especially cool for the other handhelds out there like the ROG Ally

[–] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know that there is that unofficial HoloISO that people use for desktop, it seems to work just fine but i would prefer an official distro release myself

Main downside for that is there's 0 support for Nvidia GPU's

[–] crow@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They’ve done such amazing work for Linux. Linux gaming wouldn’t be the same without them.

[–] jsnc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year ago

Now we just need an open source steam client and they will be the literal proof that companies can contribute to GNU/Linux and still stay on top.