If Linux market share on Steam were counted for English only users, it would be 5.75%, compared to the overall Linux market share
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probably because the internationalisation efforts are usually worse
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This is similar to the Linux 5,1% market share registered by Pornhub last year:
https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2024-year-in-review#devices-tech
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Interesting. How was this data extracted?
AFAIK Linux is not doing well in China, and China has been known to skew the Steam stats a lot before. China uses bots heavily on Steam for mining in games.
Anyways it's cool that we can see Linux is doing well on Steam now, despite influential factors like China.It would be interesting to see the amount of purchases made on Linux vs other operating systems. I think that's the number that counts more than anything else.
It's a random sampling of devices. That's why looking at the English only numbers are more consistent. Sometimes the randomness is heavily skewed to China, and sometimes has very little China. See here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/#languagesanchor
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If it was counted for every locale it'll be more.
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I would absolutely not use Windows for pornhub. There's a 99% chance Satya is watching you masturbate.
I mean if that's the case I'll switch back to Windows just to remind Satya of what his company's name truly means.
