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Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS (www.phoronix.com)
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According to these new numbers from Valve, the Linux customer base is up to 1.96%, or a 0.52% jump over June! That's a huge jump with normally just moving 0.1% or so in either direction most months... It's also near an all-time high on a percentage basis going back to the early days of Steam on Linux when it had around a 2% marketshare but at that time the Steam customer size in absolute numbers was much smaller a decade ago than it is now. So if the percentage numbers are accurate, this is likely the largest in absolute terms that the Linux gaming marketshare has ever been.

Data from Valve: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam?platform=combined

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[–] Mandy 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Always funny to see this Mr.robot like nutcase linked Just read through what this person considers spyware and have a bit of a laugh

Man thinks the while world is after him with that level of paranoia

[–] zer0@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hello, what's your real name and your street address?

[–] Mandy 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hm, do I give my info to a random Looney on fucking lemmy

Or

Exchange that info with a company that offers.me a service in return

I think ill take my chances with the company

Are you trolling or something? How else can you conflate two wildly different situations like this, of course I wont give you my info, thats entirely a different situation

[–] zer0@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I promise that i won't give them to anyone, the company you are talking about states they sell them to others