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Linux reaches new peak of 2.69% in Steam Hardware & Software Survey: May 2025 (lemmy.ml)
submitted 5 days ago by mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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[–] RedWeasel@lemmy.world 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Awesome. Will be interesting to see the November December numbers with unpaid Win10 support ending.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My prediction: Ten percent increase for Windows 11 with 25 percent still on 10 and barely an increase for Linux.

I hope I'm wrong.

[–] RedWeasel@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don’t know. Most of the increase above appears to be win 10 users. Win 10 lost 1.09% and the percentage gain was close to evenly split between linux and win11 with a little going to MacOS.

I could see a bunch of people paying $15 to keep win 10 going , but not that much.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 10 points 4 days ago

I'm not expecting anyone to pay to keep getting updates. Most of them will just keep using Windows 10. There are still people refusing to leave Windows 7.