Nice, but I think this is not an accurate representation of Linux gamers. A lot of Linux gamers play open sourced games on open sourced platforms like lutris.
Do they really, though? Sure, maybe most Linux users may stick with FOSS games, but most people who call themselves gamers or fall into the gamer category will be playing on Steam since that’s where all the games are, and yes, will probably be using Lutris as a launcher so you got that right.
I play most of my Steam Games on Linux, but for one or two I have to login from a Windows partition. Does that count me as a Linux user as well as a Windows user? I’m primarily a Linux user so my rare Windows use should not be counted. I think quite a few are in this position and it could be inflating the Windows numbers a bit - but I doubt it’s suddenly going to push Linux use up to 10% sadly.
All it counts are the people that get the hardware survey (which is not nearly every user) and that decide to answer it. A neat thing you could do is, if you get the survey while on your Windows machine and want to do it in your linux system, just kill the steam process without closing the survey and open steam on your linux system and you should get it popping up again.
The data is based on the steam survey pop-up that randomly selects people to participate. If you fill the survey on Linux it will count as Linux, otherwise not.
Has anyone here actually seen that survey? I sure haven’t, and didn’t even know Valve did one.
Yes plenty of times also on Linux. Edit: it pops up on starting Steam, so if you rarely close it and don’t restart you PC, or mostly run DRM free games directly though Lutris you might not see it very often.
