Free Windows 10 support ended for most people this past month, and the trend line of Linux usage has been quite clear leading up to this, as people prepared for the inevitable. An increase in Linux usage is also correlated to a drop in Chinese players, which did happen this month a little bit, but Linux usage is also trending up when filtering for English only. It's worth noting that for all the official support Macs ever saw in gaming, they never represented anything better than about 5% of the market.

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[–] 75 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Actually, the raw number percentage shows that the increase is due to Mint, Ubuntu, and Bazzite. Maybe people are installing Bazzite on their Deck but likely not the other two.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    I switched from Windows to Bazzite on my main rig 2 weeks ago. Likely won't go back to Windows for gaming as I've had pretty much no issues with Bazzite.

    I did also get a Steam deck recently, so anecdotally, both above answers are right.

    Insert "I'm doing my part" meme

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