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Might be the new beta for the 64 bit Steam client
Steam client is not listed as a Linux operating system. There are two entries, 64 bit and 0 64 bit.
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You have to choose “Linux only” from this list, otherwise the bare link has different results:
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We don’t know, but Windows market share went from around 96% to 92% which is definitely a reliable stat. It could be because they have missing entries for Nobara, Bazzite, Fedora and Zorin which are all popular with people migrating from Windows. Worth mentioning that Flatpak will be under Ubuntu Core.
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Going to add one more PC in day or 2. The courier company is holding my PSU. GIVE ME MY PSU!!!
You bought a PC? In this economy?
I guess now is as good as time as ever, because they are only going to become more rare and expensive going forward. If you have the money for it of course.
Maybe, maybe not. I wonder if after the AI bubble pops (whenever that happens - crosses fingers) data centers will close and suddenly have to liquidate a bunch of assets. Kinda like what happened after the NFT crash.
The AI bubble bursting will probably cause a shitload of tech companies to go bankrupt and cause divestment in data centres, but it’ll be enterprise hardware mainly I think. Prices likely will fall as a second order effect. And the economy will probably also collapse as bad or worse than 2008. Lots to look forward to.
No more Chinese New Year, back to year of Linux!
I do most of my gaming on Linux now.
It’s better than macOS has ever been, and I’m playing less PlayStation than I used to.
There’s a lot of smaller games I’m enjoying, like Esoteric Ebb or Slay the Spire 2
Definitely feels like it’s snowballing. From barely moving for like a decade after 2012 to really pumping after the Steam Deck came out. Hoping hardware shortages can be resolved well enough for the Steam Machine to hit. It’s the perfect form factor to me for my living room to finally make couch multiplayer comfortable for me and guests
For dummies like me, is the +3.1% of the total or just the subtotal of Linux machines?
To put it less crazy, is that a more than doubling of Linux since last time or lower, but still respectable 3% growth of Linux machines?
One is amazing and a beautiful omen, other is cool.
Last month was 2.23%, but the only reason why it was so low was because of the Chinese New Year
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/#linuxonlyanchor
Yes it’s more than double.
I got my not-quite-as-techy friend to switch, and they’re like a week in and already so pissed off about how bad windows was.
I have the opposite experience. They want to hate linux so much that they complain about everything they have to do differently. I told them to just use windows please
i gave all my friends pcs , perk of the job they all run mint . my friends parents pc was win10 and borked , asked them what they need pc for , web browser . mint . i dont even ask hahha . no complaints , my one friend thought it was windows.
Looks sus. Probably a fluke.
There has been a disproportionate amount of “fuck windows” chatter on social media recently. It could be real.
I wish that was it, but what are those unnamed 64 bit Linuxes supposed to be?
And those channels have been talking about Linux for months. Why now such a sharp increase?
The Chinese New Year screwed up the stats for last month which makes this month look like a bigger jump than it really is
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/
I made a rough trendline from Win10 EoL
You can also look at the bottom of the website where it focuses specifically on English users. It’s 8.27% to 11.28%, still a big jump but nowhere near doubling.
“massive”
Linux users on Steam used to be a rounding error. It is relatively massive.
When this reaches 10%, that’s a critical mass and things will start ramping up a lot. We’ll see more native ports and compatibility will increase. Software companies care about 10% a lot more than twice as much as 5%
cries in Firefox browser share
5% is kind of crazy already. We went from "almost 1% to 5% in not even a year
It is definitely going to rise even more these coming months as the Windows 10 ESU program reaches end-of-life in October this year.
