• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    You are correct. Outside of the hard-core users and tech nerds, Ubuntu is massively popular. But you listen to this community, and you’d think the opposite.

    So which part of the internet is Steam Hardware & Software Survey then?

    The most popular Ubuntu version is at a whopping 5% of all Linux users.

    Ubuntu went from the most popular desktop distribution to the most or at least one of the most popular container distributions, ie. for hard-core users and tech nerds. Meanwhile Steam Deck sold millions and I’m confident to say that a good chunk of the users have no idea what Steam Deck runs, let alone SteamOS being an Arch Linux derivative.

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      Very few linux installs include steam and this survey only represents a few thousand gamers. The only thing it shows is that steam users like steam os.

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        Very few linux installs include steam

        Millions of sold Steam Deck units run Linux and default to Steam. It’s easily the most popular personal computing device running GNU/Linux out there.

        steam users

        So regular users, “outside of the hard-core users and tech nerds”.

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          i wonder how many old thinkpads are still running linux… Honestly, it’s possible some arbitrary single model may still outnumber steam decks.

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            I think you’re forgetting about AWS, GCP, Azure.

            No, I’m not. Had you read my comments correctly, you’d know that I was stating repeatedly that Ubuntu is popular for containers but that’s is a completely different topic.

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      That’s not a meaningful comparison because it splits Ubuntu by version but all of Arch is a single category. We’d need to roll up the Ubuntu users for it to be apples to apples.