• @[email protected]
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    410 hours ago

    That’s not really being inflated, steam deck and the prerequisite investment into proton is why most gamers can switch to Linux without encountering a single issue these days.

    • BrikoXM
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      6 hours ago

      If that were the case, the market share at least should have doubled after people saw it was viable for desktop gaming. That didn’t happen. It only gained a predicted increase from the estimated sales of Steam Deck’s, which indeed inflates the desktop PC numbers.

      • @WordBox
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        14 hours ago

        So we don’t count Microsoft Surfaces running windows or windows (on arm)?

        • BrikoXM
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          Sure, exclude them. Precise numbers are irrelevant here, as they don’t change the basic facts. The simple fact is that Linux is stuck at 1.5%, and you are not able to dispute it, so instead you try to shift the argument to something else.

          39.20% of Linux users on Steam are on Steam Deck. Tell me again, it’s not inflated… And based on data, that doesn’t translate into wider Linux adoption for gaming.