Post #2653470

2025-11-26 00:24 UTC

@alexleduc@mstdn.ca It's legitimately a new trend. Much of it is attributed to a bunch of enormous streamers lately publicly switching to Linux, like Pewdiepie and performance testing sites like Gamer's Nexus switching to Linux distros for testing. You can outright see the growth in steam, in 2017 linux had a 0.5% share of 67 million users, aka 335,000 users. Today it's over 3% share of 132 million, or 3,960,000 users (a 10x growth). The numbers show people are more interested than ever and trying linux.

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@GabeMoralesVR@mastodon.social 2025-11-26 00:26

@alexleduc@mstdn.ca I don't like the guy but here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVI_smLgTY0 It got 7 million views, he's one of the biggest streamers in the world.

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@alexleduc@mstdn.ca 2025-11-26 00:36

@GabeMoralesVR@mastodon.social That's the thing, I'm aware of the stats from various sources and I've already seen all these videos, so maybe YouTube knows my tastes and suggest way more of these types of videos to someone who doesn't have a history of watching this type of content. The Stat Counter Desktop OS monthly market share report used to be quoted a lot by Linux media when it hit above 4% last year, but it has tumbled down since then, and has not made it back to 4% for a long time (the PewDiePie video has no noticeable impact on these stats).

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