I’ve been seeing a few of this type of post, so I decided to share mine. Now, you might be wondering “why the heck is this guy posting his steam playtime chart in a Linux gaming community, when most of it is windows?”

Well, that’s because Linux is part of the chart. Last year it wasn’t. Just like all previous years. However this year, even if late in the year, I have playtime on Linux.

About half a year ago I built my first PC with Linux in mind from before getting the parts (first time I knew I’d be using predominantly Linux from the start). I still have my windows disk because I haven’t got round to moving all the files from there yet, so its still formatted as NTFS and just mounted so I have easy access. I havent booted it since building the PC. I havent needed to. Sure I cant play Destiny 2 or Apex for example, but ehh. Never really played Apex much before anyway, and I’ll live without destiny 2.

Heres to 2024 being 100% penguin, or at least being far more than windows 🍻

  • stargazingpenguinEnglish
    150·
    10 months ago

    Yes, it appears that unless you use more than one OS or something like the Steam Deck you don’t get a graph.

    • Alto
      60·
      10 months ago

      It also includes VR as a separate OS

      • stargazingpenguinEnglish
        20·
        10 months ago

        Good to know, I hadn’t seen that yet. That makes the devices wording fit somewhat better.

      • Squiddles
        20·
        10 months ago

        I didn’t see that on mine. Mine just had Linux and Steam Deck, and I played a few VR-only games on the Index.

        • Alto
          20·
          10 months ago

          Must have a cutoff where it doesn’t show a device/OS. Mine was at 6%, so probably 5%.

          • Squiddles
            10·
            10 months ago

            My Steam Deck was on my chart at 2%. Pretty sure my VR time this year was higher than my Steam Deck time. Clearly there’s some criteria it’s using to decide what’s shown since you see it and I don’t, but I don’t think it’s percent playtime. Dunno–could also be that the VR games I was playing didn’t trigger the VR category for whatever reason. It was mostly Beat Saber.

            • Alto
              10·
              10 months ago

              Weird. Maybe it’s games that run in oculus mode vs steam vr mode?

    • sepEnglish
      31·
      10 months ago

      Where would it show up? Have played on 3 devices. All linux tho naturally.

      • stargazingpenguinEnglish
        40·
        10 months ago

        If you have one, it would be somewhere on your Year in Review page on Steam. Even though it says devices, it seems to only split it by Linux/Windows/MacOS/Steam Deck. So unless you use a Steam Deck it most likely won’t be on there. I’ve used five devices including my Deck within the last year, and it only split it two ways.

        • sepEnglish
          20·
          10 months ago

          Thanks. I do not own a steam deck. Just regular steam app on linux’s

    • agent_flounderEnglish
      10·
      10 months ago

      I don’t get the graph either but I play on Windows and Linux. But dual boot on the same machine. It must be grabbing an id off of something. Mac address or GPU or…??