• SamXavia@kbin.run
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    11 months ago

    I’m guessing this is because of more sales of the Steam Deck, haven’t got myself one yet but I’d love to as everyone that has gotten ones has said it’s worth the money as well as is a great way to get through your games on the go.

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      11 months ago

      You may be right in that people are seeing how viable Linux is for gaming due to the success of the Steam Deck.

      I’m not sure if steam deck is counted under Arch, but it’s definitely not Ubuntu, Mint, or Manjaro. It looks like the increase in Linux desktop is traditional desktop gaming.

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        11 months ago

        SteamOS is 42.99% of the Linux share on there, with the lion’s share increase of 0.68%. This ‘surge’ is pretty much just from the Steam Deck.

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        I’m not sure if steam deck is counted under Arch

        It must be, because there’s no way vanilla Arch is the most-used Linux distro, even among gamers.

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      11 months ago

      That, but also the splash buff of Proton making a lot of games work for Linux outside of Steam Decks has probably helped too.

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      11 months ago

      Add the article says, the surge is entirely thanks to the Deck. There was a 35% surge in overall use but 43% of that use is the Deck so PC/laptop use has actually dropped.

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        11 months ago

        I’d say some of that drop was punters like me who were already gaming on Linux and have just moved over to the deck now.

        I have a dock for mine and it’s really the only thing I use for gaming now as my laptop is very old.