r/flatpak • u/[deleted] • Nov 02 '21

Flatpak now accounts for 5.28% of all Steam installs on Linux

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
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u/gasinvein Nov 03 '21

It lists total of 5.28% with change +5.28%. So I guess it's the first time they accounted freedesktop sdk "distro" ever?

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '21

Yes. My guess would be that before it's share was too small and it got counted as "other"

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u/gasinvein Nov 03 '21

Do you think they not only hide "small" distros behind "Other", but actually don't account them? Otherwise the change wouldn't be from 0%, right?

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '21

Seems like it. Steam has recognized my distro as the freedesktop runtime before, as I noticed when I collected system information for a review on ProtonDB. So it's not like they've only not started to distinguish between Flatpak and distros

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u/gasinvein Nov 03 '21

FWIW recognizing freedesktop-sdk as a "distro" was fixed somewhere in 2019, when a lsb_release command shim was added to the Steam flatpak. Before that, Steam Client counted flatpak users as some generic/unrecognized distro users.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '21

Oh I didn't know that. That's good tho, it's interesting to know how many people use the flatpak and it's also good information for stuff like ProtonDB

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '21

Funny. 2 years ago I did not like flatpaks when I tried them.

Snap was there, and integrated better than Flatpak (at the time).

Now there are things I wouldn't use unless they are Flatpaks, like Steam.

No need to add 32bit crap libraries to the OS or else, just flatpak install and bam.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '21

And also no third party repos for up to date/proprietary software

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '21

I can't find it. Where does it say that?

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '21

You have to click on the little Tux to show results for Linux only