Wait, If Windows is 96.21% and Linux is 1.96%, then MacOS is 1.83%?
Wouldn’t that make Linux 2nd place?
Before opening the comments, I spent several seconds contemplating if I should mention this, or if people would think I was some pedantic nerd dickhead and downvote me to hell. Glad someone else already covered this.
Math don’t add up, Linux would be second because whatever else would only have 1.83.
Second place baby!
Even if it’s Steam Deck, this just goes to show that desktop Linux is totally viable; it just needs more commitment from companies
desktop Linux is totally viable
I think this shows the opposite.
If a FREE option that claims to be more efficient/faster (but usually isn’t in real life) is less than 2% of the market, something is wrong. Very, very wrong. Since when do people turn down free stuff, unless that free item is that bad?
Because the vast majority of computers come with Windows preinstalled, and the vast majority of users can’t be bothered to update their OS unless they’re forced, let alone reinstall something else. I’m fairly certain the numbers would be very different if there were a significant number of blank laptops on the market, let alone ones shipped with Linux.
Does SteamOS count as Linux? How about Android?
Does SteamOS count as Linux?
Why wouldn’t an Arch branch not be Linux?
How about Android?
Completely irrelevant because Steam games don’t run on Android.
Why wouldn’t an Arch branch not be Linux?
Because it’s Valve’s own OS. They might consider being first-party sufficient reason to not to lump it in with its third-party cousins.
It’s based upon the well established distro Arch, and thus still considered Linux. A distro is basically the Linux kernel with pre-installed packages. SteamOS only adds another layer of packages unto Arch afaik.
Yes, I know how Linux works.
The poster above asked for a reason why steamOS might be considered separately to other sisters, and I gave them a possible one.
Because it’s Valve’s own OS.
Still a regular GNU/Linux distribution. Even entertaining the idea it being anything else is ridiculous.
Even entertaining the idea it being anything else is ridiculous.
It’s their own OS running on their own custom handheld. Treating it separately from other linux machines might be odd, but calling it “ridiculous” is being childish.
There is a Steam app for Android so I figured that would count…
Linux is life
Linux is Shrek?
Is that before or after Steam Deck users? Would it be higher than 1.96 if we included steam deck in the count?
People are installing Windows 11 en-masse on that Steam Deck!
This, but desktop linux users are on the step for 193rd place while excitedly screaming and holding a third-place sign. Steamdeck users are on the 3rd-place step while calmly playing their deck.
Not really, it’s closer to 50/50
90 percent of Linux users being Steamdecks, where the consumer didn’t really make a choice to build the SD framework on Linux.
Idk the percentage of microsoft windows users that just used the preinstalled OS of the pc they bought, and never actively decided on an OS. But I assume it’s very high.
