• @[email protected]
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    175 days ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      115 days ago

      mining in games

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

      • FRYD
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        185 days ago

        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.

      • Mark With a Z
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        5 days 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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        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.