• Prove_your_argument@piefed.social
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    4 hours ago

    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.

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      3 hours ago

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

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        2 hours ago

        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.

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          1 hour ago

          I remebet 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 $$.