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Linux shoots back up the Steam Survey for March 2025 with Simplified Chinese dropping
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I think it is because it is not total number of Linux users, but the proportional number of Linux users compared to windows and Mac users. So the group of users who use the Simplified Chinese language must have had a lot more windows users in comparison to Linux users, and when it was dropped the proportion of Linux users rose even though the total users went down.
That's basically it. The part I don't understand is why Chinese would gravitate towards Windows while their government sees it as a US intelligence tool. I hear that most of them pirate it too.
Maybe the Steam Deck isn't readily available on the Chinese market.
Because a lot of them are into games that require anti-cheat and there are also a lot more internet cafes, so more windows.
Mac went up almost the same amount, too. If I’m reading the article correctly.