Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Linux Users Linus Salutes You”.
Linux hits an all-time high. According to research firm star counter, Linux has reached a historic 4.03 % of desktop os’s worldwide, don’t crap on that 4 % is a freaking lot. Oh, it’s it’s more than’s a lot of desktops yeah uh, not including Chrome OS. By the way, which I thought that was it when I first read this, I was like it’s Chrome, OS, no chromos accounts for another 2.31 %. Linux also show strong upward momentum.
Having only passed 3 % of global market share in June of 2023. That’S actually massive momentum. That’S crazy! Much of the recent growth in Linux comes from adoption overseas, such as in India, where Linux is the second most popular desktop OS after windows, with over 15 % market share. In comparison, Linux has a 3.85 % desktop share in the US, wow ready cool, wow, 15 %. It’S huge. Now. What I’d like to know – and I I don’t know if this is addressed in any of the coverage – ARS Technica – did a good article about it um. I don’t know if this is addressed in any of the coverage, but what I would like to know is: are they counting something like a steam deck yeah? There’S a note here asking essentially the same thing I suspect they would be they might be, but because, apparently the data is collected from web traffic, so I think it would be so then it’s also possible that steam decks would be massively undercounted, because the steam deck Is first and foremost a game console it’s a it’s a console! Everything about.
It is designed to be a console to the greatest degree. That valve was able to achieve that from the instant wake to the uh Power. Optimization it it’s it’s yeah you can plug it into a dog, put a keyboard mouse.
A lot of people aren’t going to do that. They’Re just going to they’re just going to game they’re just going to do nothing but run Steam and and game and they’re not going to visit they’re not going to browse the web with it um. So, in my mind, this number is probably underrepresented. Now you could make the same Arguments for other operating systems uh. You know oh well, on this kind of you on POS terminals that run Windows, of which there are millions worldwide.
You know they don’t browse the web on those sure sure sure, fine enough. That’S fair enough, but given how small the Linux number is and given how many steam decks, I suspect that valve is selling. I think I think it would be a significant impact compared to windows. At the same time, I think it might actually be the other way around, because this is arguing desktop oses. So if that’s the case, then steam deck involvement at all, I think, is almost cheating. No because desktop OS is includes laptops.
They can’t tell the difference. So if you’re going to include one mobile device, you got to include a different mobile device, I don’t know, I don’t consider the steam, I consider the steam deck a computer. I know I just said it’s a console, but I also argue that the PS5 is a computer, so I’m standing behind switch a computer. No, it’s yes, but it doesn’t have any kind of general purpose: utility steam deck does steam. Does it’s a computer yeah? I think that’s probably fair enough, I’m trying to pick it apart, but I think it’s fair like I I like I, I I think it’s kind of on the edge but very similar argument once the once the um Swit is basically aalor once you could it once You could put the Xbox in Dev mode and install you know, emulators on it and a browser and whatever it’s okay, it’s it’s just a computer now yeah like if you plug the right things into it, you can literally run uh Jaden used a steam deck as His development computer at work for a while cuz we didn’t have a PC for him, so it was temporary and he actually kind of liked it and it worked fine. So, like yeah, I think the argument’s fine, it’s exciting, yeah, it’s cool! It’S good! Is it time again? No, not yet, I wonder be too early valve.
Where is Steam OS yeah come on man? Let us run another. The computer .