▲ 480 ▼ Linux Breaks 5% Desktop Share in U.S., Signaling Open-Source Surge Against Windows and macOS (www.webpronews.com) submitted 1 year ago by cm0002@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev 83 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago* (3 children) Are they counting Steamdecks? Or what is the scope? permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] TeddE@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago Unless they track Steam Deck specific fingerprints the OS may be classified as Arch, but either way: yes, every Steam Deck counts as a Linux system out of the box. permalink fedilink source parent [–] fading_person@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) They count based on useragent info from accesses to websites using statcounter analytics. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago Presumably steamdecks are heavily underrepresented in that, because I can't imagine more than a quarter of steamdeck users are even going into desktop mode, much less launching a browser permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TeddE@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago Unless they track Steam Deck specific fingerprints the OS may be classified as Arch, but either way: yes, every Steam Deck counts as a Linux system out of the box. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] fading_person@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) They count based on useragent info from accesses to websites using statcounter analytics. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago Presumably steamdecks are heavily underrepresented in that, because I can't imagine more than a quarter of steamdeck users are even going into desktop mode, much less launching a browser permalink fedilink source parent
[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago Presumably steamdecks are heavily underrepresented in that, because I can't imagine more than a quarter of steamdeck users are even going into desktop mode, much less launching a browser permalink fedilink source parent