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What complicates matters is there's no good way of knowing how many Steam "Windows" users are people who use OS X or Linux as their main OS but boot into Window

What complicates matters is there's no good way of knowing how many Steam "Windows" users are people who use OS X or Linux as their main OS but boot into Windows to use Steam because of poor graphics card drivers.

rzendacott 14y ago
Yup. I'm definitely included in this bunch. My graphics card (Nvidia Optimus) doesn't work on Linux, so I'd much rather dual boot and game on Windows.
- dbaupp 14y ago
  Have you tried Bumblebee? http://bumblebee-project.org/ http://bumblebee-project.org/ I've heard that people get their Optimus cards to work well with it.
  - antihero 14y ago
    Yup, using Bumblebee with primus-run and CS:S runs perfectly smooth on my laptop.
cookiecaper 14y ago
A very related group runs Steam in WINE so they can launch and play Windows-only games. That must skew numbers significantly as well, and unless you only play TF2, Linux users are probably being counted as both Linux and Windows users because they play one game in Linux and another in WINE.