Comment on Linux smashes through five per cent desktop share in the US

dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The stats come from webpages, something a Steam Deck is unlikely to ever see, or at least not very often, so I would say it has almost nothing to do with Steam Deck, other than maybe exposing more people to Linux.

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve seen several people use a Steam Deck + a dock as their desktop PC. It’s not much different from using a Mini PC.

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      at least not very often

      The people you’ve seen are likely enthusiasts. A small minority of the millions of users. The vast majority probably never leaves game mode.

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Agreed, also wonder how many people it proves that Linux is now perfectly valid for a gaming pc

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Linux is now perfectly valid for a gaming pc

    And all it took was a corporation throwing millions of dollars and thousands of developer hours at it.

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    • megopie@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Well, on top of the tens of thousands of volunteer developer hours put in to stuff like wine that they built upon.

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    • domi@lemmy.secnd.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      And one dude that really wanted to play Nier Automata on Linux.

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    • IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You make it seem like Microsoft didn’t do everything they could to kill Linux and Mac.

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      • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Like literally investing in $150 million in Apple in 1997 and porting Office to MacOS to get in front of a possible antitrust trial ahead of Jobs’ return?

        I’m not an MS fanboi, but at least get your facts right if you’re going to make such a claim.

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    • Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Give a Man Code, and You Feed Him for a Day. Teach a Man To Code, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime

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  • Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yup, there’s enough games supported that one could completely ignore windows.

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• Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Also wonder how much impact Windows 11 requirements factored in, since the TPU and processor requirements basically said a measurable fraction of functional systems were trash otherwise.

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Do you mean the TPM? Any system made in the last 7-8 years should have a TPM 2.0 chip.

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  • Cricket@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s definitely been a catalyzing factor for me. I had fiddled around with Linux and had been pretty ‘meh’ about Windows for years, but I was just coasting along the path of least resistance. Them telling me that I could no longer use my perfectly functional computer for Windows was the ‘last straw’ that finally what made me begin to take action and get ready to say goodbye to Windows.

    If you think about it, Microsoft’s timing for this is really perfect. Wait until Linux is very viable for desktop use including gaming then tell vast numbers of your customers that they need to ditch a fully working computer in order to keep using Windows. I expect that this figure will probably double by the end of the year. There’s another article by ZDNet now that says that the share is more like 6% and rapidly accelerating. I’ll post it on the main Linux community if hasn’t already been posted there.

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