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Linux hits 4% on the desktop πŸ§πŸ“ˆ (gs.statcounter.com)
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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Did this factor out the steam deck Linux, though? It being included if going to falsely skew the numbers.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Does it, though? Those are portable linux desktops, that are in active semi-daily use just like anything else.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Yeah but it's disengenuous to make a handheld to laptops and desktops comparison. When people think linux and usershare, they're worried about work stations.

    God I'm hoping no one replies with "Well the Steam Deck could be plugged into a monitor!" Don't be pedantic. You know what I mean.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Its still a full desktop computer, regardless of whether you can hold it in your hand or not.

    and because your monitor comment reminded me, I dont remember where I saw it so I cant pull a link to it, but there was a guy who recently won a gamejam or some other similar programming competition, with a steamdeck plugged into a monitor.

    I could understand, and even agree, with your position if it was some specialty single purpose hardware running a heavily stripped down and modified linux to make something like those chinese emulator handhelds... But its not, Its literally a full use OS on desktop hardware, the only difference is that it fits in your hand.

    So like it or not, Thats a daily driver linux desktop, People use and interact with it daily, doing everything from web browsing to production work on it, So it definitely counts as a linux machine and should be reflected in the linux statistics.

    Only one being pedantic is you, and about the shape of the computer of all things.

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