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That's not so far off from Pornhub's Year In Review 2024 that had the Linux share of the desktop space at 5.1%.
Just sayin.
I would absolutely not use Windows for pornhub. There's a 99% chance Satya is watching you masturbate.
Fuck, guess I'm switching back to windows!
Some people might be into that. Don't kink shame.
I mean if that's the case I'll switch back to Windows just to remind Satya of what his company's name truly means.
I would venture to say a very large portion of Pornhub consumption is on mobile.
The stats are published. It's close to 90%. The 5% linux is more like 0.5% overall.
probably because the internationalisation efforts are usually worse
This is similar to the Linux 5,1% market share registered by Pornhub last year:
https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2024-year-in-review#devices-tech
we didnt get more % linux users but one thing is interesting: on the steam hardware survey windows lost % in all eurolanguages! it gained in trukish, chinese and other asian languages. so the boycott is having an effect. feel free to post this info anywhere :)
Sales numbers ($) by platform would be interesting to see too.
I work with/in (giggity) indie devs. One dev I work with has a slack bot spamming out sales data daily which contains breakdowns by platform.
For his indie game, across the last 7 days it's roughly 94.3% Windows, 2.0% Mac, and 3.7% Linux. The game has native builds for all 3 platforms, including Mac's ARM chips.
Thank to then activating proton on linux i think i will switch to linux. I just love playing AAA games to much.
Only AAA games that don't work on linux are pretty much anti cheat slop.
What?
They said: THANK TO THEN ACTIVATING PROTON ON LINUX I THINK I WILL SWITCH TO LINUX. I JUST LOVE PLAYING AAA GAMES TO MUCH.
Ah very clear now
Yeah sorry. I meant i will probably switch to linux because they activated proton for most Linux distros(or all, im not really versed in this). I didn't switch yet because so many AAA games didn't work natively on steam and i like to play them. Hope this is a bit more clear 😅
FYI you could have activated it yourself in the settings with a signle toggle, but now I think its on by default, it's even easier
If it was counted for every locale it'll be more.
Interesting. How was this data extracted?
AFAIK Linux is not doing well in China, and China has been known to skew the Steam stats a lot before. China uses bots heavily on Steam for mining in games.
Anyways it's cool that we can see Linux is doing well on Steam now, despite influential factors like China.
It would be interesting to see the amount of purchases made on Linux vs other operating systems. I think that's the number that counts more than anything else.
mining in games
What do they mine? Is it just farming progress to sell accounts later or something else?
I'm guessing mining for lootboxes and items. Never underestimate people's ability find money in an absurd waste of resources.
Pretty much. They also sell gold, crafting materials, and items for real money. If you spend a bit of time playing just about any mmo, you’ll see bots and gold sellers all the time.
In a lot of mmos, people will farm in game resources and sell them for real money.
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2025
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