This was another month where when Linux use recedes, it’s often correlated to increase in Chinese growth on Steam. Simplified Chinese rose by 0.59% for August to 26.03% while English language use fell by 2% down to 35.62%.
It’s interesting that China’s adoption of Linux is effectively 0%, skewing the overall stats, particularly when there is a surge in Chinese adoption of Steam, which can single-handedly push the numbers around.
I’d think that China would have higher Linux adoption, given its government’s understandable leeriness toward foreign products in general and American products in particular. Linux isn’t domestic, but at least it’s auditable, unlike Windows and MacOS.
Many governments get access to source code for critical systems as a condition for their use / part of contract negotiations. It’s also quite likely that Microsoft and all its services in China is operated as a Joint Venture.
China did have Red Flag Linux (with Government support) for a while, too.
It’s still happening. Just not over night.
The launch event for the new OS featured luminaries from China’s tech ecosystem pledge to support KylinOS 11 and its adoption across the economy.
Whatever “luminaries from China’s Tech ecosystem” actually ends up being. KylinOS adoption
Would be neat if we could view the steam survey data for only english language users (I, being an english language user, primarily care about my peers. Sorry if you are not an english language user)
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/ has a chart that shows Linux English language users only. They haven’t added August numbers yet, though.
Oh no, the wrong gamers rose up!
… Is that still a thing or do I need to go yell at a cloud?
Linux gamer has a family… Bunch of 30-40yo cucks.
GenZ is grinding on windows* while using Discord to ensure that both pedoking and shepooh gets the data✊
My kids all use Linux, there’s not a Windows machine in the house.
