Quoting: scaineJust read the earlier comments. Tyron has made clear several reasons (on their blog/forum - read crse's comment) why it's not a priority. I want it on Steam too, but there are good reasons it's not.

Not really good reasons. They think they'll make more money - see my prior comment - and they believe that they need to charge the same price for sales off Steam as they do for sales on Steam, which isn't at all true if they aren't giving Steam keys for sales off Steam and isn't quite true if they are giving Steam keys. It's their choice, of course, and if they don't feel their game is even at Early Access quality yet that's also their choice.

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If being on Steam gets you 43% more sales than not being on Steam, then the 30% pays for itself, even ignoring the saving in hosting and bandwidth costs. Everyone's free to make their own decisions of course, but "I'm not putting my game on Steam because I'd like to make more money" isn't a terribly reality-based position for anyone EA-sized and below.

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Quoting: PenglingYep, totally agreed, though I do sometimes wonder how the desktop-environment usage stacks up. It's purely anecdotal, but in gaming circles I've seen more folks who lean towards KDE first - not that there's any way of knowing this for sure, of course!

Yeah, actual statistics on Linux usage are really hard to come by. The ones that are there tend to line up as roughly a third KDE, a third Gnome, and a third everything else. Studies for school rollouts suggest that students tend to prefer KDE to other options. Red Hat casts a long shadow on workstation use, of course, and a lot of Ubuntu use is headless.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusI think we need to start fitting an exponential rather than a straight line.

Actually, could you have multiple fits on the plot? I don't know what the back end is like.

As someone that nagged Liam into putting the trend line on the graph, the simple least-squares line that goes through the mean is the appropriate one to use. It's just a visualisation of the data; it isn't going to show any particular function. Whether the data points squiggle around the trend line, say, or has early data below the trend line and later data above the trend line, helps to visualise what the data are showing.

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Quoting: PenglingYup - I'm on Xubuntu (I don't get on with GNOME, either, and KDE's a bit too heavy for my liking), and finally got pinged for the survey for the very first time recently, but naturally it all goes under the Ubuntu banner.

I think it's the right way for them to have done it: it's their branding, and you're using the same software from the same repositories whichever flavour you're using or even if you eschew desktop environments entirely. And it stops the distro stats being diluted over the half-dozen or so official flavours and many community remixes. But it does make Gnome seem more popular than it might actually be.

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Quoting: dziadulewiczI think Ubuntu should be combined as so "Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS" on the list.

It shows that Ubuntu is still the most popular one LTS's combined. I mean Ubuntu is Ubuntu. The combined share for Ubuntu is 15,26 %.

The survey just looks at the LSB name, so that part's not going to change. The interpretation is a different matter, of course. Ubuntu is the most popular distro for Linux Steam users, just as it was last month when people thought that Arch was on top; the split numbers are just an artifact of Ubuntu's release schedule. However, at the rate that Steam Decks have been shipping - and so SteamOS usage has been growing - it seems likely that SteamOS will genuinely be the most-used Linux distro on Steam next month or maybe the month after.

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Quoting: scaineThe visuals remind me of Beyond Good and Evil. And now that I've mentioned that masterpiece, I want to play it again! I think I owned a physical copy of that game... I wonder what the options are for replay now.

It's £4.29 on Steam, rated Silver on ProtonDB, and marked Playable on the Deck. It looks like it needs some detailed massaging to work properly. Its regular sales discount is 70% or a price of £1.28.

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Quoting: NerdNoiseRadioIt's not that these laypeople are actively choosing Linux like you or I or the people in the group would, but passively choosing it by consequence of simply demurring to actively pursue the alternative.

The same is also true of the majority of Windows' desktop user base.

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Quoting: TheRiddickThe SteamDeck 1 has a RDNA2 4core APU with a graphical powerhouse of 1.6-1.8 or something TFLOPS and 720p TN panel.

IPS panel.

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I also ran through the Blackwell games on the Steam Deck and had a great time. Point and click games work really well, despite the fact that you're not really pointing or clicking. The rhythm of exploration and contemplation is great with the pick up/put down nature of the Deck.

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