Comment on Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey

Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• visor841@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Steam is a massive worldwide market, and the Steam Deck isn’t offered everywhere. Chinese users for example have to import it, so not many are used there.

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• trespasser69@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well maybe Linux most likeky to hit 7% global OS market share and total 5% Steam Survey user share next 10 years

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  • KITA@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Keep dreaming. Not that I hope Linux doesn’t do well. But I can’t imagine it’ll continue to grow into the future.

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  • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Over 15% marketshare in India

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    • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      thats amazing, why is that?

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      • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Dunno. I don’t live there.

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  • hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I hope it languishes around 3-4% at most, if it does get 7%-10% enshitification inevitably ensues and it will grow more and get worse

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    • rbits@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If that happens, you can just switch to another distro. That’s the point of Linux

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    • pixelscript@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’d be more than happy to sacrifice a distro I don’t care about like Ubuntu to the mainstream if it means Microsoft’s market cap gets a sizeable chunk taken out of it.

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• Ugurcan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Deck sold well but there are billions of Steam users.

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  • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ~35 million concurrent active users.

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• CMahaff@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I got the hardware survey on my Windows PC, but not on my Steamdeck. So I wonder if there is only 1 survey per user, and most people don’t use a steamdeck exclusively?

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• Solemarc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I could swear it was higher earlier this year/last year but looking at the survey results, Linux climbed to 2% this survey. I think maybe that half remembered headline was something like “Linux is higher than MacOS at 1.5% market share” or something like that instead?

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• hangonasecond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t think the 2% figure includes the steam deck, but I might be wrong

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  • Macros@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It does include it. The article list it in detail: 36.79% of the Linux users use the steam deck. And the number is falling, which means there are more users also using Linux on desktop PC (or other gaming handhelds)

    But that may also just be statistical noise.

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