Linux Usage on Steam Continues to Fall

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Despite Valve’s push, less than 1 percent of Steam gamers use Linux or SteamOS.

Valve’s considerable efforts on behalf of Linux-based gaming just aren’t paying off. Valve and its hardware partners released the first Steam machines running the Linux-based SteamOS about four months ago. And there are now more than 1,900 games available for Linux on the Steam store. But Linux usage on Steam just keeps falling. The evidence comes from Valve’s Steam Hardware Survey. It reveals that machines running Linux—including SteamOS—were at 0.91 percent in February 2016, a drop of 0.04 percent from January.

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