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In all seriousness, I think government bodies switching to Linux (UK's, China's, some Indian states') attributes the most to this.
No I think it's the Steam Deck. It's like half of all actively used Linux machines.
Source? Last I checked, the Steam Deck was very much in the minority even when narrowed down to just desktop Linux.
Source is the Steam hardware survey set to show Linux data only. He forgot to mention the statement is only true for Steam Gamers, not for all of Linux desktops outside of Steam.
~ https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/?platform=linux
I believe the Steam Deck would be a significant portion of the Linux desktops, but Steam's survey might be a biased source, still
What does significant portion mean to you?
I can imagine it'd affect statistics enough to see a clear change
I confused it with Steam statistics sorry