• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    It’s public data… It has increased 0.4% in a year and was going down from 2014 to 2018. Heck, is only 0.3% higher than in 2014!

    Now, how much work and money did it require to get that 1.44% and how many of them are people that wouldn’t have otherwise installed Steam on a Windows partition?

    https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam

    No, Linux support is not worth the trouble, nor is OSX support, except to be the only platform to cater to that market.

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      1 year ago

      Totally. Let’s just stick with our corporate overlords. Market share can’t be changed by people making better decisions.

      Edit: also, “market share” in the context of FOSS is pretty silly. For all we know, most Linux users spoof the user agent.

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        For all we know, most Linux users spoof the user agent.

        Really? That’s the argument you’re going for?

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      Yes Linux support is not worth the trouble until you see the Epic Games launche is a CEF, that is literally a web app running in a browser and hear me out CEF is designed to be cross-platform.

      The only thing they should do is ship the app for linux and maybe add a proton menu in the settings and that’s it! Valve as done most of the work for them.