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.
This is actually part of a long, slow downward slide. Linux has been hovering around 1 percent for a while, and it’s dropping further.
Three years ago, in March 2013, Linux users made up 2 percent of Steam’s user base, and Linux usage appeared to be closing in on Mac usage at 3 percent. That was around the time Valve gave away a free “Tux” promotional item to everyone who signed in to Team Fortress 2 from Linux, a move that encouraged a lot of Windows gamers to try Linux—if only for the free stuff. That promotion seems to have made a greater impact on Linux’s usage numbers than even the launch of Valve’s Steam machines.
The number are sobering. Linux is now a long way from Mac OS X, which has a user base 3.4 percent. Windows usage remains at a whopping 95.59 percent, with Windows growing at the expense of both Linux and Mac last month. Heck, even Windows XP remains at 2.39 percent usage.
Azert ezen csodalkozok, hogy 3 eve jobban ment, az biztos hogy most inkabb az ubuntu, debian-t reszesitik elonyben, nem pedig a SteamOS-t.
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