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5 reasons why desktop Linux is finally growing in popularity (www.zdnet.com)
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[–] wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk 34 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Number 2 was huge for me, and it hit home when I realised that 99% of my Steam library was supported. Thankfully I don't need to use any Windows only apps (Adobe suite, etc) so the decision to move over to Linux was trivial personally

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

Yup, I'm guessing that's the main contributing factor here. Just like how Chrome grew in popularity because the nerds (e.g. me) shilled for it, Linux is also growing because gamers still for it. It turns out that if you can solve one major pain point for a very passionate subset of the population, you get a lot of free evangelists and people will follow.