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Not really news. It's been floating around 2% for a while.
It was around 5%. Ban on online games might have affected.
Isn't that the global market share of Linux itself
No, I am so lazy to find source right now but it was a steam statistics too.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/ don't think it's ever gone above 2.5%
OK my bad. It wasn't Steam statistics, but another statistics for overall Linux desktop usageon statcounter