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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

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.

[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 11 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

mining in games

What do they mine? Is it just farming progress to sell accounts later or something else?

[–] sevon@lemmy.kde.social 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm guessing mining for lootboxes and items. Never underestimate people's ability find money in an absurd waste of resources.

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