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Linux has reached 2.32% in Steam Hardware Survey for May 2024 (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's been a sharp upswing of the Linux percentage in the last year or so which cannot be explained just by Steam. Steam's popularity definitely contributes to a continuous rise but it's usually a steady rise.

And it's not so far-fetched that people are growing dissatisfied with Windows. Everybody's been complaining about the ads and the AI.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Everybody here.

I have literally not heard a single person in real life complain about it. I work in a tech field where people largely use Windows for work. Not a one. We talk about nerdy stuff all the time, it hasn't come up.

I genuinely don't think people around here get how much of a bubble this weird "OSs as sports teams" stuff is.

As for the impact of the Steam Deck, we can actually cross-reference to estimate it by looking at the GPU numbers. Of that Linux blob, the Deck should account for 0.8% of the total, so that leaves desktop Linux proper at 1.52%. The Deck launched in February 2022. The last survey before the Deck launched had Linux at 1.11%, so that gives you a 0.41% increase. That's not insiginificant, but... you know, it's still pretty small.