This was another month where when Linux use recedes, it’s often correlated to increase in Chinese growth on Steam. Simplified Chinese rose by 0.59% for August to 26.03% while English language use fell by 2% down to 35.62%.
It’s interesting that China’s adoption of Linux is effectively 0%, skewing the overall stats, particularly when there is a surge in Chinese adoption of Steam, which can single-handedly push the numbers around.
I’d think that China would have higher Linux adoption, given its government’s understandable leeriness toward foreign products in general and American products in particular. Linux isn’t domestic, but at least it’s auditable, unlike Windows and MacOS.
Many governments get access to source code for critical systems as a condition for their use / part of contract negotiations. It’s also quite likely that Microsoft and all its services in China is operated as a Joint Venture.
China did have Red Flag Linux (with Government support) for a while, too.
Would be neat if we could view the steam survey data for only english language users (I, being an english language user, primarily care about my peers. Sorry if you are not an english language user)
It’s interesting that China’s adoption of Linux is effectively 0%, skewing the overall stats, particularly when there is a surge in Chinese adoption of Steam, which can single-handedly push the numbers around.
I’d think that China would have higher Linux adoption, given its government’s understandable leeriness toward foreign products in general and American products in particular. Linux isn’t domestic, but at least it’s auditable, unlike Windows and MacOS.
Many governments get access to source code for critical systems as a condition for their use / part of contract negotiations. It’s also quite likely that Microsoft and all its services in China is operated as a Joint Venture.
China did have Red Flag Linux (with Government support) for a while, too.
It’s still happening. Just not over night.
Whatever “luminaries from China’s Tech ecosystem” actually ends up being. KylinOS adoption
Would be neat if we could view the steam survey data for only english language users (I, being an english language user, primarily care about my peers. Sorry if you are not an english language user)
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/ has a chart that shows Linux English language users only. They haven’t added August numbers yet, though.