• >spyjoshx_@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Just tried Steam for Mac the other day, and there is a very good reason why it’s so low. Modern macs don’t even let you play games made for Mac!! Since 32-bit support was dropped, you pretty much can’t play any Source games like HL2 or Gmod.

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        1 year ago

        Oh I know. I have a linux laptop that I use for gaming. I’m just going to a party where we plan to play gmod and some of the others don’t have laptops so I thought I’d see if my Mac would be suitable. It wasn’t.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, most of my games don’t work on macOS (I think ~1/4 do?), and most of my games do work on Linux (>3/4). So I don’t use my Mac (work computer, my boss is cool with it) for gaming and instead use Linux.

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    1 year ago

    According to these new numbers from Valve, the Linux customer base is up to 1.96%, or a 0.52% jump over June! That’s a huge jump with normally just moving 0.1% or so in either direction most months…

    so I assume it was at 1.44% in June, which means… like a 35% increase?

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      1 year ago

      There was a pretty big dip a 1 or 2 months ago, so I would just classify this as being margin of error, especially with such small percentages

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    1 year ago

    I’m one of these stats, I switched to Linux as a daily driver on my gaming setup a few months ago. I kept the windows drive installed in the box, but it’s way more lonely than I thought it would be.

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    1 year ago

    The Steam Deck is the biggest contributor to this number. According to the article, 42% of Linux users on Steam are Deck users.

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    1 year ago

    I hate to say it, but the only thing that can explain this kind of sudden jump is error in data.