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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Re:2.02% so quickly? by rve · 2013-03-02 03:30 · Score: 1, Redundant

You're showing your age with conspiracy theories from a decade ago. Microsoft isn't the fear inspiring behemoth it was a decade ago. No one talks about them any more, no one fears them any more, if anything, they are the ones being bullied out of a market or two these days. The only place still obsessed with them is Slashdot.