I remember when I said Linux would make up 5% of Steam by 2027, people said I was retarded.Looks like I wasn't optimistic ENOUGH.At this rate we might hit 10% before 2028.
Ive got time to prepare until win11 goes EOS, right? Or at least before they release some other retarded update to 11? Anyway, where to start with linux? Ive heard some people here talk about CachyOS, and that i can run it from a pen drive to test it out.
How much of that is just the steam deck?
>>736211473you can test most distros from a pendrive. pick whatever is beginner friendly and popular
So basically I'm just gonna not type sudo and my password constantly I Know..... UGH I know... It's just that I'm not gonna take do it is all HAHAHAHAHRHAHAHA
>>736211861I guess if you never use your package manager.
>>736211624Steam Deck didn't just start selling in March 2026.And yes, much of this is just because of the language stats going back to normal after the usual Chinese New Year shenanigans (notice that Simplified Chinese isn't the majority language anymore like it was in February), but Linux hadn't even reached 4% before that dip. This survey might actually be bugged because this much of an increase even from the pre-Chinese-new-year stats of 2 months so is really insane.
>>736211932Yeah it might be bugged because the biggest increase is from something called 0 64 bit which isnt even a linux distro.
>>736211861>logged in as rootbased
>>736211972Could be the new Steam RT3 thing, which might be reporting the distro incorrectly. (Whether that could screw up the overall numbers e.g. by double-counting users who opted into that beta, I don't know.)Anyway, Linux has been trending upward for a long time, so if the current numbers are fucked then it's still likely that the real numbers would show Linux at an all-time high regardless.
