It peaked at 4.05% in March. The last 2 months it went just below 4% as the Unknown category increased. For June the reverse happened, so 4.04% seems to be the real current share of Linux on Desktop as desktop clients were read properly/werent spoofed.

    • @leopold@lemmy.kde.social
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      2010 months ago

      Source? Last I checked, the Steam Deck was very much in the minority even when narrowed down to just desktop Linux.

    • @737@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1610 months ago

      no, the statistics are based on browser agents, very few steam deck users browse the Internet on their devices. it’s also only half the Linux devices on steam, not of all Linux desktops

    • @wischi@programming.dev
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      1110 months ago

      But that’s not really a Desktop is it? If we’d count mobile device we’d also have to include Android and then the situation would look completely different.

      • ferret
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        2310 months ago

        Steam deck has a full fat kde desktop on the stock os

          • ferret
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            110 months ago

            You can plug in a keyboard, mouse, and monitor

      • @Bulletdust@lemmy.ml
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        710 months ago

        Connect the Steam Deck to a compatible dock and you can quite easily use it as a desktop. At the end of the day, it’s still an x64 based PC that’s just handheld.

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          010 months ago

          I’m not sure that’s really a good argument. I can connect an android smartphone to a monitor, keyboard and mouse and call it Desktop. It’s also just an arm64 or x64 based PC just handheld.

          A Desktop PC IMHO is a device that is used for everyday “office” work and neither android smartphones nor steamdecks are that - but laptops for example are (IMHO)

      • @freebee@sh.itjust.works
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        210 months ago

        It is. I use it as such regularly. Keyboard+mouse+screen = browsing firefox as usual. Works quite well. Libreoffice, okular, signal desktop… I’ve used worse computers in recent years, steamdeck desktop experience is better than many 4 to 5 year old cheap laptops with win10 or win11.

    • @istanbullu@lemmy.ml
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      810 months ago

      In Steam maybe. But this is StatCounter which is website visits. I doubt many Deck users are browsing the web.

      • @GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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        010 months ago

        For some reason I think a lot of them (probably even more than half) have tried browsing the web or at least using the desktop mode at least once.

    • Fonzie!
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      410 months ago

      Oh that is a good point, why didn’t I think of that!