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Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] 59 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Linux passing 5% is a major milestone, good to see Linux thrive. 👍 😎

Part of the jump at least appears to be explained by Valve correcting again the Steam China numbers

I wonder why there needs to be special correction for China, but I'm guessing it's about some sort of bots probably farm bots.
If anyone knows more please share your knowledge.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    A bit of a guess, but it might be related to software cafés. They are a lot more common in the east.

    Since multiple people can log into the same computer, it might over count them. They are also likely exclusively windows machines.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    ~~I think, like the rest of the world, we try to go away from US software. Windows is the big one, and China would like to go open source.

    They do that because it's the strongest weapon against capitalism in the US. That country is nothing if they cant monetize on everything.~~

    EDIT: I'm an idiot. Didnt read the article, but I did now. Just pass my stupid comment.

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