https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/

I was hoping the Steam Machine would give a bigger boost, but I guess they haven't shipped many of them yet

Wonder if some of this is people not playing their steam decks as much anymore? I remember there being a surprisingly significant bump in Linux useage when that released. A lot of handhelds kind of have a honeymoon phase before collecting dust on a shelf, and maybe getting picked up again if you have a long flight or something, and then returning to the shelf.

The real Year of Linux is, when China bans Windows.

Linux Mint here, but I buy from GOG.

The Year of Linux is, when China bans Windows.

I’m sorry for the fluctuation guys. I haven’t had as much time for gaming this past month due to exams and whatnot. I didn’t mean to let you all down.

Look, I'm doing my best, ok? Back off!

Reporting every bit of noise in this statistic is kinda boring?

Sorry. My fault. I've been working too much to play games.

I cracked my offline games and mostly stopped using steam. :p

It's not even for pirating I don't want to depend on those guys to own my game which I guess is piracy I think, but anyway.

I wonder what the sampling/reporting issue is? Why Chinese specifically? Are there droves of Chinese gamers flip-flopping between Linux and Windows? That doesn't seem likely.

I even ensured I refused survey data on my Windows machine but that it ran on my Linux machine to help game the numbers as I'm sure other Linux users do.

I'm convinced Microsoft would have to mandate sticking a probe up your ass when creating a user account/setting up a computer before significant switching among average users would take place and even then a huge 50% of the population would say it's not that big a deal and switching is a larger hassle and they have no choice, blah, blah.

Linux is kind of still stuck in the doldrums of tech and privacy enthusiasts and a few of their friends and I'm just not sure what if anything can change that in terms of individual actions and markets. Now sure if China or the EU made it harder to sell Windows computers and really pushed people onto a version of Linux that could bump the numbers but in both cases they're just trying to gain some sovereignty by putting government systems on Linux and that transition alone will probably run for a good part of a decade.

F*ck that's on me. I took a break from gaming to focus on other projects + the occasional GBA SP.

It's extremely hard to believe that someone that has had a taste of Linux would switch back to Windows, if this is what the stats imply, which I'm not sure. I would need to be paid thousands to willingly use Windows again.

I still don't get why I can't opt in to participate in the survey every month, I've only been asked twice in the last three years on Arch

Sorry dudes forgot to fill in my survey

"marketshare"

Many distros do not send telemetry by default, so this "metric" must be wildly distorted.

China has entered the room.

It's disappointing how weak minded people are.

I bet a lot of people are duel booting and they go back for certain games and just find it too much hassle to keep booting in to Linux

I'm still playing Mechabellum on Ubuntu - thx Proton!