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The billion dollar race to replace Windows (www.youtube.com)
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[–] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Pc gaming was a 52 billion dollar industry in 2025.

Each 1% of gamers using Linux is then around 500m… and Linux users trend English speaking, so likely wealthy nations unlike the majority of steam windows users.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Conflating 1% of Linux users also being 1% of revenue is pretty asinine lol

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah because I’m sure windows users pay way less than macOS users.

    I wonder what the techies pay like me who are using Linux. I think I’m up to about $2000 this year on software alone.

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