Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux

Re:Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux by MeinBlutIstBlau on Saturday September 11, 2021 @11:24AM (#28492720)

I'm saying this because most people who use or are aware of Linux happen to be CS majors. You pull any random business major and they barely understand Excel. You eliminate all college majors and the average person that uses Linux has already plummeted. Regular every day computer uses want cheap and easy. Linux is cheap but not very easy, especially if you have no clue what your doing. Sure you can go into a forum on what to do, but what person that knows nothing of computers and doesn't intend on going into the field will bother with learning this stuff? Even myself I find it tedious and I know what I'm doing or can at least learn it pretty easily.

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Re:Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux by loloquwowndueo on Saturday September 11, 2021 @12:05PM (#28493062)

“ most people who use or are aware of Linux happen to be CS majors”

As someone who taught in an accounting school where awareness of Linux was higher than you state, I can tell you this is false.

Give it up already, face the fact that Linux is more popular and well-known than you want it to be, for whichever reason.

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Re:Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux by indymike on Saturday September 11, 2021 @12:18PM (#28493169)

> I'm saying this because most people who use or are aware of Linux happen to be CS majors.

Android is a Linux distribution it is the #1 phone OS (73% market share this year). ChromeOS is a Linux distribution and is the leading OS by market share in K-12 schools. Both are cheap and easy. In ChromeOS's case, they are easier for both administrators to manage and users. I'm also sure the students using Chromebooks have not completed their CS degrees yet, but one can hope.

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Re:Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux by pjmlp on Saturday September 11, 2021 @02:26PM (#28494444)

And yet zero of Android and ChromeOS games come into GNU/Linux.

Linux community likes to pat themselves on the back thanks to Android and ChromeOS using the Linux kernel, yet they are oblivious to the fact that Linux syscalls aren't part of the official stable API, only certain ChromeOS models do run Linux (a yet another guest OS, WSL style), and then what GNU/Linux gets are Electron apps.

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Re:Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux by Talanes on Saturday September 11, 2021 @05:04PM (#28495998)

>You pull any random business major and they barely understand Excel.

I'm not sure you could pull any random Linux user and have them truly understand Excel either.

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Re:Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux by pxc on Monday September 13, 2021 @12:04AM (#28507756)

> I'm not sure you could pull any random Linux user and have them truly understand Excel either.

As a Linux user who did not major in business, I bet your odds with Linux users would be markedly worse than with business majors on this one, hahaha

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