Comments by "Winnetou17" (@Winnetou17) on "Total Linux Desktop PCs Now Over 56 Million" video.

  1. I was searching for someone to point this out. This is correct, about half of Steam users on Linux are on Steam Decks, meaning the DESKTOP part of Steam is about 1%, not 2%. Frankly it is much lower than what I expected.
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  2.  @techpriest4787  No, that excludes SteamOS, which has more than 40%
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  3. I'm part of this statistic change 😀 Long overdue, this start of the year (well, started just before the year change) I finally installed my first Linux on bare metal and switched to it. I went directly with Gentoo. In these 8 months, I only logged in back into Windows 10 (which still functioned flawlessly, I might add, one of the reasons I switched so late) a total of 3 times, one of which was only to check that it's still working and to do updates, just in case. I'm not surprised that Gentoo isn't in the statistics, it's very niche by its nature, and while I love it and I think it's, by a good margin, the distro with the best customizations possible (in an easy to do manner), I think it will always be niche. I also have to point out (fortunately at least one other comment saw it) the Steam Desktop share is flawed and it is trivially to see it. SteamOS users are Steam Deck users, which, last time I checked, it is not a desktop PC neither a laptop. Even if you keep it on a desktop or in your lap. So the Steam Desktop PCs users is actually about 1%. Which, I do have to admit, is significantly lower than I expected. Steam somehow saw the least Linux increase, even though it should've actually increased the most, since it has two vectors: desktop PCs AND Steam Deck. But then again, the surveys are only on a portion and it's random, so there's always a chance of stats being skewed by how the random picks happened. That's why it's better to wait several months too see a trend, like Bryan said in the video.
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