valentino@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-21 year agoLinux Desktop Market share keeps increasing, 3.19% now. +0.07% for August gs.statcounter.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.mllinux@lemmy.mllinux@lemmy.mllinux@lemmy.mllinux@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.mllinux@lemmy.ml
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkLinux Desktop Market share keeps increasing, 3.19% now. +0.07% for August gs.statcounter.comvalentino@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square17fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.mllinux@lemmy.mllinux@lemmy.mllinux@lemmy.mllinux@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.mllinux@lemmy.ml
minus-squareKit@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoMacOS holds a nearly 30% market share and few game developers give a shit about publishing their games on Mac. Why would Linux be any different?
minus-squaredb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoAre you including iPhones in this market share?
minus-squareMazonnaCara89@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoBecause linux doesn’t have deprecated opengl, doesn’t run their own proprietary api for gpu instead of implementing vulkan and last but not least because linux does still have support for 32bit application.
minus-squaregens@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoApple is notorios about being anti-gaming, yet many games support it while not supporting linux. Don’t know the actual stats though.
MacOS holds a nearly 30% market share and few game developers give a shit about publishing their games on Mac. Why would Linux be any different?
Are you including iPhones in this market share?
Because linux doesn’t have deprecated opengl, doesn’t run their own proprietary api for gpu instead of implementing vulkan and last but not least because linux does still have support for 32bit application.
Apple is notorios about being anti-gaming, yet many games support it while not supporting linux. Don’t know the actual stats though.