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Steam For Linux: A Respectable Showing

Posted by timothy on from the where-there's-steam-there's-water-vapor dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Valve has just released its February, 2013 Steam Hardware & Software Survey, and the results are absolutely mind blowing. Linux is now standing strong as a legitimate gaming platform. It now represents 2.02% of all active Steam users." That's in keeping with what new submitter lars_doucet found. Lars writes: "I'm an independent game developer lucky enough to be on Steam. Recently, the Steam Linux client officially went public and was accompanied by a site-wide sale. The Linux sale featured every single Linux-compatible game on the service, including our cross-platform game Defender's Quest. .... Bottom line: during the sale we saw nearly 3 times as many Linux sales of the game as Mac (Windows still dominated overall)."

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  1. Re:2.02% so quickly? by blind+biker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mentally replace "get" with "bet" to make sense of the comment above. Is this embarrassing? A bit. Did I laugh when I noticed the mistake? You get your ass.

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    "The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
  2. Re:2.02% so quickly? by Ragzouken · · Score: 5, Funny

    You don't get a lot for free in life, but at least you get your ass.

  3. Re:Wow by pipatron · · Score: 5, Funny

    And the requirement for joining Mensa is that you belong to the top 2% of the population, rated by IQ. Coincidence? I think not!

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  4. Re:2.02% so quickly? by blind+biker · · Score: 4, Funny

    You don't get a lot for free in life, but at least you get your ass.

    Or vagina.

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    "The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
  5. Re:Wow by Sulphur · · Score: 4, Funny

    Before you know it, you'll be playing Left4Dead on your phone. There's a HUGE untapped market there.

    My phone left me for dead long ago.