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The billion dollar race to replace Windows (www.youtube.com)
submitted 15 hours ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev
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[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Pc gaming was a 52 billion dollar industry in 2025.

Each 1% of gamers using Linux is then around 500m… and Linux users trend English speaking, so likely wealthy nations unlike the majority of steam windows users.

[–] eli@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Conflating 1% of Linux users also being 1% of revenue is pretty asinine lol

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah because I’m sure windows users pay way less than macOS users.

I wonder what the techies pay like me who are using Linux. I think I’m up to about $2000 this year on software alone.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I remember humble bundle stated once that Linux users paid much more than windows and iOS per user. It was a number of years ago. There is something to say about per user $$.