Linux Gaming

15797 readers

1 users here now

Gaming on the GNU/Linux operating system.

Recommended news sources:

Related chat:

Related Communities:

Please be nice to other members. Anyone not being nice will be banned. Keep it fun, respectful and just be awesome to each other.

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

poVoq@slrpnk.net

Quintus@lemmy.ml

mudle@lemmy.ml

174

Steam Hardware survey for January 2024 (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

31 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Windows 96.52%

Linux 1.95%

OSX 1.54%

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] LaSirena@midwest.social 40 points 2 years ago (3 children)

"I use 'Arch Linux'" she said sarcastically. Why are Arch and Manjaro in quotes, but Ubuntu LTS and Linux Mint aren't?

[–] autokludge@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago

I use "SteamOS Holo" btw

[–] survivalmachine@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Why are Arch and Manjaro in quotes, but Ubuntu LTS and Linux Mint aren’t?

They're probably putting the rolling releases in quotation marks -- I'm guessing they're pulling the Description field from "lsb_release -a", where "Arch Linux" says just that, while each Ubuntu/Debian/Mint/etc distro will show specific version numbers (and that would explain why Arch shows up as a higher share than Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS) -- I'm sure there are several more Ubuntu entries in their list that would total more than Arch's percentage. I'm not sure why they arbitrarily truncated the Linux list at 4 while showing 5 Windows/Mac releases, though.

EDIT: Found another screenshot where they list "SteamOS Holo" in quotes, too. So I guess they just include quotes for every distro that doesn't show a version number in that field.

[–] Truck_kun@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Version numbers I'm guessing.

Do they not have actual version numbers maybe?

Which means, Ubuntu may have several separate entries, whereas Arch gets all combined altogether. If that's the case, then likely not a very accurate Linux distro list without additional data cleaning to combine versions of distros.