Release steam OS and see it shoot up. For the people saying : just use this or that distro. I don't want to tinker.
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I know people are holding out for legit Steam OS, but Bazzite exists specifically for those people, who would prefer to hold out for Steam OS.
Might be worth looking at, its not for tinkerers.
Also Windows 11 up 5%, including seemingly all of Win10's 2.5% drop and a bunch more over, with Windows overall growing slghtly by .16% (holiday purchased new hardware, presumably?).
Maybe I can just link people to this first one in all the upcoming "told you so"s regarding the crazy disproportionate hype from Linux advocates about Win10's EoL, how fast that was going to go and in what direction.
Expect with more expensive hardware coming up and no holiday sales that move to continue to be largely towards Win11 and very slow, as people continue to not give much of a crap about security patches.
Full time Linux here. No complaints.
Been playing expedition 33 and vampire survivors.
I've been on steam for over 10 years now. Was never picked for the hardware survey until yesterday. Glad I'm part of the Linux number.
I voted on deck and my laptop.
At what percentage do you think Linux will be a serious target for large game developers?
I reckon you'd have to be at least in the double digits for larger studios/orgs to take notice. Though the steam deck has already had a very positive effect on the number of Linux native games in the indie space.
For something like FIFA & Call of Duty for example?
I imagine somewhere between 8% and 20% just for enabling anticheat support. That would be around 20 million monthly active users.
Some smaller devs are already doing the extra mile and making native ports, like Baldur's Gate 3 for example.