• addie@feddit.uk
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    8 hours ago

    Closing in on 8% if you filter it by “English language only”. Chinese speakers overwhelmingly (almost exclusively) use Windows and make up about 30% of all Steam users, which skews the rest-of-world results. And I wouldn’t consider 8% of all prospective sales to be a joke, especially since that number only keeps on rising and by the time you’ve spent a few years writing a game it’s likely to be quite a bit more.

    https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/

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      7 hours ago

      And I wouldn’t consider 8% of all prospective sales to be a joke

      Don’t put words in my mouth. I never said it’s a joke.

      It kinda just irrelevant, if you target mass market. But not a joke.

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      10 minutes ago

      Massaging the data to meet your desired stats. Like a politician.

      Why not exclude even more countries that mostly use windows and then say “99% of steam users are using Linux*”

      ~*based on users in Afghanistan only~