I wonder why the numbers get so much . . . bouncier, starting late in 2022.

They stopped going back later in the month to correct for Chinese overcount.

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What's the current most annoying issue you want to see solved on Steam?

In the bigger picture, worldwide launch of the Steam Deck would cure the biggest Steam Deck flaw.

Closer to home, the notification bell and OLED network dropout are both quite annoying.

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We appreciate the love from Linux users, but unfortunately support for Linux Desktop is not part of our agenda in the future.

They really ought to twig at some point that the desktop Linux market is twice as large as the Deck market. Making things for the Deck but not other Linux is just silly.

In this specific case, though, their "ask me anything" had lots of questions but only one real answer. Which got downvoted to oblivion. So I don't think things are going well for them in general.

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@shadowofward There is essentially zero difference between distros for performance. You'll want to look for things like support, convenience, community, as well as personal preference.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/the-best-linux-distribution-for-gaming-in-2025/

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FWIW, I suspect that the Windows versions aren't selling at all well, so the retailers are trying to dump inventory of those by making the Windows versions seem more attractive to customers than waiting for the SteamOS version. Whether the SteamOS version actually appears, and actually gets sold, and at what price, we'll have to wait and see.

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Did the windows version also get a similar price bump?

The Windows version is showing as the same price as the SteamOS version, but with a claimed discount of $130 to get it there on the Z2 Go version (ie, they claim that it should be $730 normally). For the Z1 Extreme version, the Windows one is $900 and the SteamOS one is $830.

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I really dislike the PC = Windows mistake.

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I really liked the demo. I'll be picking this up to play with the little one.

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I do wish this had a demo. I'm interested in the game, but a lot of the reviewers had an issue with the driving feel so I'm hesitant to actually get it. If there were a demo I could give it a go to see if I would have an issue with the feel of it, and then buy it if I didn't. Without a demo I'm either not going to buy it (where I am now), or buy it and refund it if I don't like it enough within two hours. Having a demo gives potential customers a no-risk encouragement to try your game without the hassle (customer side and dev side) of refunds.

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10 years ago the Steam Machines had definitively failed. Twelve years ago, though, we were riding high with 40% of Steam releases having a native build because of perceived future growth of the platform.

It's never been hard, as such, to make a native build. It's mostly the commitment to testing and fixing, and potentially working around quirks of middleware where the Linux build hasn't received enough testing and fixing.

The Deck does have a lot of hype, even with the non-Deck Linux market being twice as big as the Deck market. And the platform's been showing consistent growth in the way that Mac, say, hasn't. And a native build gives the dev control over how their game runs in a way that Proton doesn't. Maybe the Deck has driven them to look, and then they've realised that the market's bigger, and the work less, than they'd assumed? I couldn't say for sure.

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