commanderJan 6

Valve amended the Steam survey for December 2025 - Linux actually hit another all-time high

https://lemmy.world/post/41239608

Valve amended the Steam survey for December 2025 - Linux actually hit another all-time high - Lemmy.World

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Show threadDaddleDewJan 6
I like that the line appears to take an exponential growth curve. Hopefully it will keep going. Microslop sure is helping right now.
Show threadDie4EverJan 6
I don’t think it can keep going at an exponential pace, but I think we can pass 5% in Q2 maybe Q3, especially with Steam Machine
Show threadDaddleDewJan 6
It must level off at some point, if anything for purely mathematical reasons. But the higher it gets before that happens the better.
Show threadbear

The big players are driving this trend. Nvidia, Microsoft, Intel, etc are making the old status quo too expensive and obnoxious.

Adoption typically takes an s-shaped or sigmoid curve. A slow start, rapid growth, and then stagnation.

I’m curious whether gamers are going to pull Linux into the mainstream. Discord is a good example. For many years only gamers knew what it was, now most of the users on aren’t using it for gaming, and it has fundamentally changed the platform.

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Show threadBarbedDentalFlossJan 7
Luckily Linux is an open source system with tons of variety and tailor made environments for specific use cases whereas Discord is a for profit company that shoves unwanted features like Nitro down everyone’s throats for their endless revenue chasing. So if it takes off because of gamers, we’ll see lots of needed features and bugfixes.