• FreedomAdvocate
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    7 hours ago

    Linux gaming users are in the tens of millions of people. It’s not like this is some super tiny community. There are more Linux gamers than macOS gamers by around double.

    Nope, not in the tens of millions:

    People using Linux computers at home, including for gaming, is a super tiny “community”. Also not close to double Mac, and even if it was - Mac isn’t a real gaming platform, so the fact that it’s not even double Mac is evidence of how little people care about linux for gaming.

    About two years ago Linux gaming market share was hovering below 2%. Now it’s over 4%.

    Not on steam it’s not.

    Yeah…it’s smaller than Windows by A LOT, but it’s continuing to grow every single month on the Steam Hardware Survey.

    Purely because of the steam deck, and windows is growing too - not everyone uses steam on windows, whereas it’s really the only option for Linux.

    Linux gaming has gone from “this sucks” to “this works unless there is kernel anti-cheat”.

    And unfortunately for Linux, without this it will never take off because the overwhelmingly most played games all have kernel level anti-cheat.