https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/north-america/#monthly-200901-202607
Cloudflare stats also seem to support peaks of 15% usage but around 9-10% on average. In the United States alone, the market share for Linux is nearly 12% now for the whole month and Cloudflare stats suggest peaks of up to 25% (!) Linux desktop usage on certain days and times.
The trendline suggests this is just the start. When will companies realize they cannot ignore Linux anymore?
Gonna need to know what they mean by “Linux” in this context. If it is Ubuntu/Fedora/etc that’s impressive, if it is SteamOS then while cool it is not nearly as impressive.
Nah, SteamOS is a normal Linux. It counts.
Edit2: you actually can get hardware surveys on steam os! Do you even get hardware surveys on steam os though?
Edit: question mark, curious here
It says “desktop use”. SteamOS is not desktop use.
How not? Is the full KDE desktop mode not enough?
It’s a gnu+Linux OS with a default desktop environment. It’s intended to be installed on bare metal where it’s accessed directly by the user.
It’s not for server use. (At least not primarily or by default.)
So I’m not sure where you’re getting the idea that it’s not desktop Linux.
It counts if you use it to visit a website participating in stats collection. Maybe excluded if the device has a touchscreen and requests the mobile site (I haven’t used a Steam Deck and don’t know its default browser’s config)
Technicaly steamos is a desktop build on arch basis would love to know what the default User-Agent is for steamos as this is probably that basis of that data.