• N3Cr0@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I didn’t expect there were more Mac gamers than Linux gamers out there, especially on Steam.

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      Me neither. But it makes sense. In some countries there are a lot of OS X users.

      Just like there are a lot of iPhone users. Generally they are users that get a Mac the same way they get an iPhone. It’s from Apple. It looks like premium hardware. And it seems simpler to use than the alternative (Windows).

      They don’t get the Mac for gaming. They don’t care about the GPU at all. But considering there are many users if just a few of them decide to try the MacBook to play some light game they can put a good number in the steam survey.

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        It’s not Mac or Windows, it’s Mac, Windows, or Linux. And you can install Linux on a Windows device.

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          I was thinking about people with basic software knowledge and 0 hardware knowledge. That also never used Linux. This is why I excluded Linux. I consider Linux a bit more advanced.

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      I am kind of the opposite. I always assumed there were a decent number of mac users. If only just people using work or “school” laptops to play a few games.

      It being as low as 1.84% is what shocks me.

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    Can’t play a lot of my games because they are 32-bit, that’s why I stopped using Steam on my Mac. Haven’t spent the time to work around.

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      Can’t forget Apple pissing off all their devs to the point that there’s so few popular games supporting Mac now. And older games don’t work because they killed the backwards support.

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      It is also 1.96% versus 1.84% so it is largely “meaningless” and could just be the noise of when people get the hardware survey pop up.

      But this is still actually really good. I finally switched my primary gaming over to Linux a few weeks back. And a big part of that is the Steam Deck. Because, while I was going down the list of my top games on ProtonDB, I had to keep reminding myself “Of course that works on Linux. I literally was playing it on my Deck on my deck the other day”.

      And this is good. Because I still don’t think there is a good reason for developers/publishers to even care about linux desktops. But if they care about the Steam Deck then we get that for free.