Up to 2.7% in May 2025 from 1.5% in May 2023. Almost x2 in 2 years is very impressive.
I’m quite impressed Arch comes out on top
I’m not honestly. As far as I know SteamOS is based on arch which should give it a massive boost in comparison to other linux distros just from the number of Steam Decks
SteamOS does not get reported as Arch.
Two of my friends switched recently.
They had none to very little experience with anything Linux before, their previous win11 installs just over bloated and the copilot bullshit pushed them over. Both (indie/non-pop shooters) gamers btw.This is the year of linux.
Do they choose distros made for gamers?
One is trying Bazzite the other one is just classic fedora
It just goes to show you. The only way to get the Linux desktop market share up is not building. Something better than Windows we have been there for a while. It’s make hardware, put Linux on that hardware and sell it in a store. Avg people don’t change operating systems. They change computers. Now if we could just get steam decks in retail stores. It would be a huge.
Exactly. Linux will never become the majority OS as long as it’s not the default OS on retail PCs.
Avg people don’t change operating systems
This is a huge argument, even Linus Torvalds said that many years ago. The average person just wants to buy a computer and use it normally for work, casual stuff or gaming. They won’t make the effort to change the operating system.
Now if we could just get steam decks in retail stores
We can also get the Steam OS on different hardwares, just like the Lenovo Legion Go S
I wanted to switch but then saw nvidia’s drivers are even worse on linux than windows. Maybe once I’m ready for a gpu upgrade I’ll go AMD and make the switch because it feels like if theres little hope of nvidia fixing their drivers for PC there is zero hope for linux.
