An anonymous reader writes “Valve has just released its February, 2013 Steam Hardware & Software Survey, and the results are absolutely mind blowing. Linux is now standing strong as a legitimate gaming platform. It now represents 2.02% of all active Steam users.” That’s in keeping with what new submitter lars_doucet found. Lars writes: “I’m an independent game developer lucky enough to be on Steam. Recently, the Steam Linux client officially went public and was accompanied by a site-wide sale. The Linux sale featured every single Linux-compatible game on the service, including our cross-platform game Defender’s Quest. …. Bottom line: during the sale we saw nearly 3 times as many Linux sales of the game as Mac (Windows still dominated overall).” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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