Comment by CharlesW
2 years ago
FWIW, this is from StatCounter, so it's just one data point from sites that use their free counter (less than 1% of websites).
StatCounter provides the most optimistic estimate available. Another data point is from Steam, which says 1.76%. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey?platform=combined
The Steam Hardware Survey is a survey on the population of a gaming storefront. Despite Valve’s own efforts, Linux is still very much a second-class citizen in the gaming world. StatCounter might not be the most accurate predictor ever but, as a web analytics tool, is going to be more representative of the population at large that gaming microcosm.
> …Linux is still very much a second-class citizen in the gaming world.
I understand, just citing it to put a pin in the lower end of the range. I'd bet on ~3% actual.
Steam survey might also additionaly be skewed away from GNU/Linux. In all those years I have never gottent the survey popup on any of my GNU/Linux machines (except Steam Deck), but have gotten it many time on Windows when still using it, and on the Windows machine at work which I have to use to test stuff it was also shown regularly. Not one single time on GNU/Linux machines. Is this widespread? If it is then I guess there should be even more of uss according to Steam survey.