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charizardcharz@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Fortunately Valve publishes monthly hardware statistics so we can back claims with statistics. Linux comprises 2.89% of their surveyed share. Of that 28.31% are using Steam OS. Using the wayback machine we can check the statistics from last year. Checking the July 2024 results using the Wayback Machine shows Linux at 2.08% with Steam OS comprising 40.97% of that.

From that we can see that Linux is growing, while Steam OS is becoming less of a contributing factor to the Linux share.

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YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Someone citing actual facts on the internet?! Impossible!!

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- Bogasse@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Sourced facts nonetheless
  
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PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
the deck is a gateway drug for linux

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- dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I think if Valve would release SteamOS 3.0 for PC that would make a bigger dent in Windows. TurboTax just announced they will not support Windows 10 for the new version and that’s probably just the start for Win10 abandonment.
  
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  - PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    does turbotax support linux?
    
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    orclev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    No but I think the point being made is that people that have been clinging to Win 10 as a refuge from the crapfest that Win 11 is are going to start running into significant problems soon. Increasingly you’re not going to be able to get software for Windows 10. A lot of people are opting to migrate to Linux rather than going from Win 10 to Win 11, and as the holdouts on 10 are increasingly corned some amount of them will make the same decision.
    
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    semperverus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    They support web browsers
    
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ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/ has some statistics from the Steam Survey. Somewhat interesting bit is that if you only take users who use English as the language in Steam, the Linux market share is 6.3%.

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