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Re:Ask HN: Why is the Linux community struggling to implemen... by zaat on Thursday April 08, 2021 @08:01PM (#26745273)
1 to 100 in the consumer space seems to me extremely optimistic, not sure if I'm betting that it's a 2 or 3 orders of magnitude miss.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the Linux community struggling to implemen... by yissp on Thursday April 08, 2021 @08:46PM (#26745569)
I know it's not representative of the consumer space as a whole, but Linux users apparently make up about 1% of the Steam userbase fwiw https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Steam-Li...
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the Linux community struggling to implemen... by sdenton4 on Thursday April 08, 2021 @09:07PM (#26745723)
Yeah, but that 1% can choose either the Linux reference hardware or keep buying some other random laptop and throwing Linux on it.

So, the market is really rather less than that 1%...

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the Linux community struggling to implemen... by zaat on Friday April 09, 2021 @04:38PM (#26755833)
Well, since Steam is the only gaming platform available on Linux, and since Steam is sold as a system based on linux with its own Linux distribution, SteamOS, and since Steam have its own version of Wine that magically runs Windows games on Linux, I would say that this statistic says nothing at all.
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