Baby steps i guess.

I’ve known for a while but Linux really isn’t newbie friendly. I’ve tried several times over the years. Most recently I tried Mint and within a week or two the GUI software update stopped working. I switched to Ubuntu because I have a little familiarity and quickly realized the only way to stay updated is apt. Firefox will work for a while and then have days where almost every tab is crashing constantly. Sometimes you can get a page to work with reload or two, other times not. So I installed chrome under protest as a backup. Mostly it doesn’t crash although sometimes it does the same thing as Firefox (but usually not at the same time). Those are really my only complaints at all.

I will say, though, that gaming has come a long way, especially with Steam. I don’t think SteamVR is there yet, but otherwise I haven’t found anything that wouldn’t run (but I play AAA on PS so I’m not really pushing it hard). I thought I was giving up gaming when I moved to Linux, but not at all.

I left a big partition free in the expectation of dual-booting windows, but I really haven’t had any reason to at all.

I would assume Steam to be lower because gaming was one of the major roadblocks for gaming until recently, and many gamers are still scared of switching over. It also assumes no dual booting and whatever they ran the check on is the registered OS. This would register both potentially.

Team’s data is also useful, but it’s different data.

Windows is more prevalent with gamers so I guess it would make sense for the Steam survey to show less Linux users than there are in the general population.

That’s just for Steam

Steam is gaming not desktop

of the Linux 4.5%

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There are margins of error I’m sure, but you’re just making things up.

Ehh some linux setups may go into unknown but linux users are also more likely to own multiple devices. I dont think its that precise but its impossible to make it precise

Yes

https://gs.statcounter.com/faq#page-views-uniques

We measure internet usage trends. To accurately measure usage, we have to base our stats on page views (and not unique visitors). Let’s look at an example:

Person X uses two browsers. On a particular day, they load one page in Browser A. They load 500 pages in Browser B.

If we based our stats on unique visitors then usage of Browser A and B would both be recorded as 50%. This is obviously incorrect. This does not fairly represent the usage of the browsers given that Browser B was used 500 times more than browser A.

Using page views as the basis of our stats means that Browser A will be recorded at less than 1% in our stats whereas Browser B will be recorded at over 99%. In our view, this gives a more accurate representation of actual browser usage.