Linux Exceeds 3% Marketshare on Steam Hardware Survey for First Time

Is there a correlation between Gabe and Thanos from alternate universe ?
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But for real, I hope it grows enough to be a substantial thing, and with better performance - I know it's not that big, but it has it

I don't believe Valve's Steam Box will be the key, but this shows the community itself is shaking things. If the mindset of PC gamer forgets Windows and focus on gaming, Linux will be on top
 
I know we've seen real world better performance on handhelds but is there big performance uplift in real gaming PCs that have been benchmarked.
Its not about performance uplifts imho. This would be really weird, because proton just really only translate windows games to be playable on linux. I would always expect some kind of "translation loss". The fact that some games running better on linux is already quite strange to me. I would be happy with stable 85%-90% performance (compared to windows) and more feature parity (this seems to be important for many people).
 
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But for real, I hope it grows enough to be a substantial thing, and with better performance - I know it's not that big, but it has it

I don't believe Valve's Steam Box will be the key, but this shows the community itself is shaking things. If the mindset of PC gamer forgets Windows and focus on gaming, Linux will be on top

Depends on what you mean by "on top". I was thinking about it the other night and with the way things are now, I think there might be 10% of steam users who might find it pretty much painless. ie, get a real replacement for what they use their computer for. And if linux can get to 10%, I'd see that as a huge win. I don't see any path to actually surpassing windows on desktop and laptops. Alternative form factors like handhelds, steam machine(s), headsets or whatever, I can see it having a much higher share than 10%.
 
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