Linux breaks the 5% threshold for the Hardware survey first time ever on @steam@lemmy.ml
Cross posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45783520?sort=Top
Linux breaks 5% threshold for the first time again?
Or is this a repost of the previous time?
There are dozens or us, dozens!
Even if you don’t use Linux, this is now an un ignorable fraction of the userbase. This will force more companies to support it!
o7
Great to see linux finally getting some notice in the gaming world. It is about time :)
Interesting but the absolute figures are not helpful due to the way the survey is conducted. But the macro trend over a long period is clearly up; we just don’t know where is actually lies as a true %.
Valve will have far more accurate idea of actual numbers as they will be able to correct the raw survey data using other information and data they hold and collect. But they’ll never release that as it’s a commercial advantage to them to know so much about the PC games market.
What’s an example of something they could do with more data than what we see?
Determine if sample set is representative. And if people switch. Valve know which user change setup but not release because privacy.
I guess it would be more precise, and they could sell it to game developers.
deleted by creator
Guys its finally the year of the linux desktop
spoiler
And it should be anything but GNOME
This is why we can’t have nice things. You brought a knife to a celebration.
Let’s just be happy for the platform, also fuck Arch.
Let’s just be happy for the platform, also fuck Arch.
Lol! It’s the year of the Linux desktop! Let’s celebrate!
and then...
focus on converting everyone to the Vim editor.
spoiler
GNOME is fine I will die on this hill. It’s not for Windows refugees, though.
spoiler
my issue with gnome is that it’s not api staple enough to trust the plugins you install will keep working
spoiler
Just apt-mark hold gnome /s
spoiler
That’s a fair criticism. I imagine as it matures more this might become less of an issue (yes it’s been around for ages but desktop Linux is only recently gaining some traction, so I give them some slack there), but currently it’s absolutely GNOME’s biggest downfall.
It’s also partially why I don’t recommend it for Windows refugees, if you have any expectations of how it should function there’s a good chance it just won’t work that way, and the extensions that make it work how you want it to are unreliable.
I personally have a cursed setup with GNOME and hyprland installed. I retreat to GNOME whenever my hyprland setup is borked, which is most of the time.