Diamond Member Steam 0 Posted May 1 Diamond Member Share Posted May 1 Valve and its SteamOS operating system have already done what a bunch of companies (including Apple) have been trying to do for decades: make a dent in Windows’ dominance in PC gaming. I mean, sure, according to Valve’s own statistics, This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up remains dominant. Over 92 percent of PCs in the Steam Hardware Survey run some version of Windows. But five years ago, this number was This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . Ten years ago, it was This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . Fifteen years ago? This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . Go back any further than that and Steam only runs on Windows in the first place, itself a testament to This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 's ubiquity. Between April 2021 and now, Linux’s share has climbed from under 1 percent to over 5 percent. This is a small number, and it's not all SteamOS (Valve's OS isn't broken out, but Arch, the base distribution for SteamOS, accounts for about 0.33 of that just-over-5-percent). But it’s also more than these numbers have ever moved. By This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , rather than trying to push game developers to make Linux-native ports, Valve has done via organic word-of-mouth success what the company This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up when it This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/311575-steam-the-rampocalypse-has-bought-microsoft-valuable-time-in-the-fight-against-steamos/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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