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Steam Linux Marketshare Surges To Nearly 2% In November
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Tell me why "market share" of commerical, proprietary games is important to Linux again?
Steam market share is honestly probably a decent metric for adoption rate of Linux as a whole.
And that's important because?
Linux can be used to play commercial games > more people daily drive to linux > more companies port their software to linux > even more people switch to linux > Windows/macOS duopoly breaks, losing to open source alternatives
I'm not saying playing call of duty on the deck will make windows fall, but it's a start
Since when have you needed to commute to use Linux? 🤣
Daily drive linux *
Lmao my bad
Because the more market share leads to better hardware and driver support