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How would something like FreeBSD show up on the steam end of year statistics? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by flashgnash@lemm.ee to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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Obviously nobody in their right mind is using BSD for gaming but I do wonder how it would show up

I heard there was a bsd port of steam at some point and some people got the Linux build working on it. I have to assume the Linux build would probably report as Linux unless it has some mechanism to determine operating system besides it being hard coded

Having 1% of my playtime be on BSD seems like a pretty good meme to me

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[–] 0x4E4F 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I don't think many of the BSD folks are interested in gaming... hence, the lack of a BSD port.

I really have no idea what they take out of contributing to BSD, considering the permissive license. I know what I take out of it (storage, firewalls, etc.), but for them? It's still a mystery to me.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Probably the same thing a lot of people myself included take out of Linux

It's far nicer to use than windows if you're technical, and also it's different

[–] 0x4E4F 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I get that, but having a permissive license is what would most definitely turn me off about contributing to the project.

And I also read somewhere (don't know if this is true or not) that a large portion of BSD devs actually use Macs as their daily drivers.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Doesn't surprise me, I don't think they really expected it to be used on the desktop

[–] 0x4E4F 1 points 2 years ago

That would kill my enthusiasm to be honest... but whatever, each to his own 🤷.