I don't think it can keep going at an exponential pace, but I think we can pass 5% in Q2 maybe Q3, especially with Steam Machine

I've had multiple of my normie friends ask me about linux in the last few months and I even got 2 to switch over. Which blew my mind I got them to.

I think my favorite comment I've heard from them since switching is how much it just gets out of their way. It's there and does the thing and is only there as much as it needs to be.

As someone who semi-recently made the jump (june) to linux, you need a lot of time to do it, even for something that would seem trivial to an experienced user like going to mint. Most people don't have the time to do something like that. New systems built by curious nerds will probably be where linux gets most of its new users. (so it's a shame no one can afford to build one)

Up until more recently, all the shitty shit they did only affected people with more computer knowledge than how to open the browser and use google.

Most users don't know how to enter a url any other way than to search for the site name and click on the most likely result.

I don't see those people installing Linux (or anything else, for that matter) any time soon.

Does Microsoft care about steam numbers?

So just put steam on all those computers we're already refurbishing into linux servers anyway?

I will be replacing windows on all five of my home computers with Linux

I'll leave a couple as a dual boot, but the media server, laptop, primary desktop, and two media/'console' PCs (connected to TVs) will be swapped over. hopefully it will be easy to get the same setup on all of them and run reliably.

You kids and your new fangled computers.

I use CachyOS on my main rig but i have a home server with debian i also use to game on every now and again, it was a great experience (besides nvidia drivers ngl) i dont understand why people try to scare others away from gaming with it

o7 right back atcha!

Debian since 1997, babes.

This is me.

Maybe spring break. Lots of kids are at home from school and they disproportionately use Windows.

I believe Ubuntu Core would be the flatpak version of Steam but I could be misremembering

Edit: I am wrong

Probably (example) 22.04 and 24.04 show up separately.

I'm not surprised by this at all. I tried 24.04 and found it lacked what attracted me to 22.04. It had some great new features, but overall the 22.04 experience is better. I'll keep trying it though, still early days.

83.11% of Linux is English https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam?platform=linux

that's 7.59% of total

at the bottom here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/