If Linux market share on Steam were counted for English only users, it would be 5.75%, compared to the overall Linux market share
If Linux market share on Steam were counted for English only users, it would be 5.75%, compared to the overall Linux market share
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Interesting. How was this data extracted?
AFAIK Linux is not doing well in China, and China has been known to skew the Steam stats a lot before. China uses bots heavily on Steam for mining in games.
Anyways it's cool that we can see Linux is doing well on Steam now, despite influential factors like China.It would be interesting to see the amount of purchases made on Linux vs other operating systems. I think that's the number that counts more than anything else.
mining in games
What do they mine? Is it just farming progress to sell accounts later or something else?
Pretty much. They also sell gold, crafting materials, and items for real money. If you spend a bit of time playing just about any mmo, you’ll see bots and gold sellers all the time.
I'm guessing mining for lootboxes and items. Never underestimate people's ability find money in an absurd waste of resources.
In a lot of mmos, people will farm in game resources and sell them for real money.
Yeah farming or mining whatever you can do.
They sell everything for real money, complete accounts with upgraded characters, or rare items or whatever has value in a game.
It's a random sampling of devices. That's why looking at the English only numbers are more consistent. Sometimes the randomness is heavily skewed to China, and sometimes has very little China. See here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/#languagesanchor