Well maybe Linux most likeky to hit 7% global OS market share and total 5% Steam Survey user share next 10 years
Comment on Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey
Stovetop@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Surprised it’s not higher. I would have thought more than 2% of people on Steam were using Steam Deck.
trespasser69@lemmy.world 2 days ago
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Over 15% marketshare in India
umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
thats amazing, why is that?
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Dunno. I don’t live there.
KITA@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days 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.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 days 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
rbits@lemm.ee 2 days ago
If that happens, you can just switch to another distro. That’s the point of Linux
pixelscript@lemm.ee 2 days 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.
Ugurcan@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Deck sold well but there are billions of Steam users.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 2 days ago
~35 million concurrent active users.
CMahaff@lemmy.world 2 days 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?
Solemarc@lemmy.world 2 days 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?
hangonasecond@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I don’t think the 2% figure includes the steam deck, but I might be wrong
Macros@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days 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.
visor841@lemmy.world 2 days 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.