Quoting: chimpyThe D3D12 backend showed the most benefit for Intel iGPU users that could support D3D12, but not Vulkan. This was a lot of users. Intel iGPUs dominate our top GPUs used stat in analytics.

a lot of people have iGPU but a lot of people also have an GPU or dont have windows 10

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Quoting: GuestWhy do you assume that I didn't take this into account?

because this is a common mistake, and this "So why is only 1% using Linux?" shows that you are not taking the things from the point of view of an windows users.
why would anyone want to be limited to an subset of the games he own/want if he can have then all with an better performance, less bugs and less headache to install then?

Quoting: GuestIf they have intersection then they are counted only one time in one category.
I said that you will easily find 2500 games with platinum compatibility in Wine and I was talking about games that don't have any kind of native port in Linux of course.

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?bIsQueue=false&bIsRejected=false&sClass=application&sTitle=Browse+Applications&iItemsPerPage=25&iPage=1&sOrderBy=appName&bAscending=true [External Link]
2595 games, counting intersections.
i did that before a couple of times so i had an idea of the numbers.

Quoting: GuestIt's also obvious that you din't think about the fact that less than 40% of the Windows games is listed in the WineHQ database.
And yes, a significant percentage of these not-listed games also have platinum compatibility in Wine and don't have native ports.
So the real number can be above 3000 games without native ports and with platinum compatibility.

can be is not is, i dont like being a beta tester and i'm pretty sure most of people dont wan't it either.

they just want sit and play and not having their experience destroyed by an glith at its best moment.
just imagine you were watching your favorite movie, then an random image glitch comes in and spoil the experience, would you chose that videoplayer again when you can use something else and be sure that the movie will run flawless?
if it where windows being the Problematic OS and linux being the flawless, i'm pretty sure you wouldnt be deffending windows.

Quoting: GuestWindows vs Linux benchmarks in "the most popular online game ever": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM8qXbJqMvs [External Link]

that was not for me, but i will reply anyway.
Dota2 is the most popular online game evar? are you fucking kidding me?
dota 1 was quite popular, but it was an custom map for warcraft, you need warcraft to play dota1, so the popularity of dota1 never had surpassed the popularity of warcraft.

dota2 may be more or less popular than dota1, but its not even close of league of legends.
dota2 cant even run on my computer natively, and i can run league of legends using wine (i could even on my previous machine) being able to run in an weak computer is very important for an online game, but even ignoring this, no, dota where never was as popular as LOL is.
also, not everyone looks for benchmarks of windows vs linux all the time, only a few linux users do so, and if you see other benchmarks you will see different results on other games (due to being bad ports).

Quoting: GuestYesterday a friend came and we played Left 4 Dead 2 (I was on Linux, he on Windows) He suddenly got stuck somewhere, he couldn't move in any direction. I had 0 issues on Linux and I had to finish the level for him before he could play again.

you logged out on his account?
because there are countless of un catched bugs on different games, that dont means one operating system is better than another.
there are bugs that are quite rare to occur, otherwise they would have being fixed already, valve is quite infamous for fixing bugs that affect almost no one and almost never.
i dont think they left less bugs open on the linux version of l4d2 than in the windows version, especialy considering i cant even play it at a good frame rate at this computer, and i could at an weaker one.
if they didnt fix the performance issues, why the hell did you think they fixed more bugs?

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI still have this pipedream where either China gets serious about security from US government hacking or Microsoft makes a big push to stop Windows being pirated in Asia. In either case, we'd see some sudden, massive Linux adoption spikes.

that is why microsoft will never fight piracy, it makes more sense to then to have their product pirated than to have an competition for it.

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"Linux has more than 3500 games in steam + more than 2500 games with platinum compatibility in Wine + more than 1000 native games on sites/apps like Lutris, ONEPLAY, LinAPP, HOLARSE, itch.io, GOG, Penguspy, LGDB, GAMEJOLT, and independent sites

= more than 7000 games"
your math dont take into account Intersection.
just a quick visit to winehq and you see that a lot of the platinum games are also on steam for linux (3 on the top 10 list, you cant be that blind)
lutris is not an store, its just an mannager for your librarie.
i didn't even heard of linAPP, ONEPLAY,HOLARSE,Penguspy,LGDB much less an windows user or console player, i dont know even if the keys are legit or are like the g2a keys.

there is no origin or uplay for linux.

plus wine maybe a pain in the ass to configure, no one want configure something when they have time to play, all they want is sit and play.
combine that with what GoLBuzzkill said, and you will realize that from the point of view of an gamer, there is no sense in switching for linux, no advantages only disadvantages, is from the point of view of linux users that what you said matters.

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Quoting: ison111Wasn't everyone saying that Steam Machines don't get counted in the survey?

In my opinion that is a HUGE factor. Because without counting steam machines you're basically completely ignoring the entire audience behind steam supporting Linux in the first place, and all you're left with is mostly just Linux users who'd probably be using Linux on their desktops even if there was no steam Linux client.

Until we know steam machines are being counted and/or steam adds the survey to steam machines if it's not already, then I personally think this statistic is utterly meaningless.

steam machines were an flop.
we didnt had any news about the sales of the machines, but we had about the controller.
500.000
https://www.destructoid.com/valve-has-sold-over-500k-steam-controllers-365274.phtml [External Link]
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steam machines where relased at: Nov 10, 2015.

7 months to sell 500k controllers, the 2 first months tend to be the ones where most of the sells are done.

you dont need an Steam Machine to have one controller, but all Steam machines come with one controller and supports at least 4.

valve didnt say anything about the numbers after that, if they were any good they would.

in other words, even assuming that everyone who purchased one controller had one machine, that would mean an number between 125K and 500K machines sold during that period.
that is very low for an console, they are pretty much floped at this time.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: elmapul.Especially because its a dead system that you cannot buy new anymore.

you cant buy the hardware but you can buy the games

yes you can but i can still also download the rom for free and play it on linux today and nobody is going to kick down my door because of it. I get what you are saying support the porting to linux by buying x title etc but on this occasion i fail to see the point. Whoever holds the rights now to snk games is not the original snk as they went out of business in the late 90's.

you're quite outdated.
they were purchased by an company that didnt knew how to manage the ips, then the original ownerd purchase it again.
nowadays they are owned by tencent, the saame company who owns Riot (league of legends creators)

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Quoting: wojtek88I don't get it. Why Steam publishes information about users from surveys instead from analytics of running Steam clients?

1)some people would count that as spy.
2)maybe they dont want help their competition to know their numbers?
3)too many data to process on their servers?

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.Especially because its a dead system that you cannot buy new anymore.

you cant buy the hardware but you can buy the games

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this is nothing new.
those games are avaliable on humble bundle too.
and buying on humble bundle, allow you to play on android or pc (windows, mac, linux)

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next step is the performance conformance...
at least i'm my book

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