the newer users in the steam community are highkey dumb

Just let me find his IP adress and ddos him... aww his probably just a 8yo ignorant running on a windows 7 and not knowing the basic of how a computer works

I hope someone shows him the world

@CriticalFailure Amen

@Lahsen2016 the second

He's not wrong tho. Our market share is pathetic. I've seen our image get better lately but there's still a long way to mainstream. Thankfully Microsoft is helping us with fucking up their own system and dumping millions into the Linux foundation 😄

(Them supporting the Linux foundation is actually sort of scary...)

@RedBorg Do you feel cool now or something? You make yourself look like a script kiddie.

Besides he is not wrong. Linux gamers are in a massive minority. Less than 1% of all Steam users use Linux.

Pure objectively it is not financially viable to port games to Linux. Behavior like yours will surely not change this.

@Makenshi i wouldn’t ddos anyone (except if I had good reasons), what I said is that he is PROBABLY one of those people that think Linux is only for geeks with hoodies in dark room.

Why am I so bad at expressing myself😑

That guy is guilty of spamming at a valid question, because "will this get Linux support" is a valid question.

The statement however isn't all that wrong. I actually find it impressing that so many games these days support linux. There must be a lot of passion for this small share of customers. Keep in mind that commercially consoles are also a huge part of the market.

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Bookwormdalek must have tons of shittiest extensions because he thought​ he was the 1000 iPad winner...

@CWins The main reason for the increasing Linux support isn't a higher "sympathy" for Linux but more the fact that it is much easier to build for Linux today than it was a couple of years ago.
More and more games, especially simpler ones, are made with engines like Unity or Unreal. And there it is mostly only a click on a button and the build is ready. The needed financial effort has a lot lowered.

There has been a lot of (open source) effort done to achieve this simplicity. You can thank projects like OpenGL or GNU for that.

He makes a valid point though, and as others have said it's quite surprising how well an OS with 0.5% market share is supported. But at the same time I'm not sure about a few statistics from steam. I know for a fact steam OS is not included since the survey window can not appear while in big picture mode, even if it is dead. And I'm unsure how WINE gamers are added up. Most devs also report a much higher sales percentage. 3-5% seems to be the average.

Which one do you mean?

@Condor True true. And that's where our strength lies. The OS is designed to be stable, secure and customisable first and then adapted to desktop not the other way around like with windows. Thats what makes Linux great, you know that you have code running in there that's stable enough to power Amazon or Google.

He is right in the gaming side.

Wow, I had respect for the steam community....

@AndreiKnight He is but he did not specify what community

I'm mad AF!

@Benedikt
Good point.

He's not wrong. Tiny market share, graphic drivers are a mess, so many distros... It's already hard for game developers to make a game compatible on most Windows machines, can you even imagine having to support all the possible Linux variations?

Sorry guys but gaming on Linux ain't happening anytime soon.