• Stovetop@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Surprised it’s not higher. I would have thought more than 2% of people on Steam were using Steam Deck.

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      6 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.

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      Well maybe Linux most likely to hit ~7% global OS market share and total 5%+ Steam Survey user share next 10 years (its just prediction)

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

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

    • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
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      6 days ago

      thought more than 2%

      What confuses me is a survey earlier this year was 2.32%, so why the actual regression?

      I’d have expected it to go up with more time to sell steam decks and whatnot, not regress by 15%.

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      6 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?

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      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?

      • Macros@discuss.tchncs.de
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        6 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.