Steam For Linux: A Respectable Showing

Posted by timothy on Friday March 1, 2013 @09:18PM 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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Proprietary software issue needs fixing first! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-01 21:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic

As a community we need to put our money where it counts and stop endorsing companies which are hurting OS adoption. Proprietary drivers and other software for Linux is not a good thing. It's making it increasingly difficult to use Linux and the general masses ultimately give up. The tiny user base we have isn't enough to sustain most products that companies release to test the water with Linux. Without more people contributing there dollars to free software friendly solutions we won't see increased adoption and we won't see the OS take off.
I want to see gaming on Linux succeed although not before the hardware problem is fixed. Right now there is only one company I'd buy a system from and thats ThinkPenguin. They don't sell gaming systems because they know how badly it hurting adoption.