• alsimoneau@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    At that rate we reach 100% Linux users in 34 months. (50% in 27)

    I’d call that quite significant.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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      6 months ago

      … what rate are you talking about?

      I am going to assume the other person’s numbers were right but it honestly doesn’t matter

      422k people per month? That is 0.3% per month. 2.89 + (0.3*34) = 13.09. 13% after almost 3 years. Which… that honestly still seems high but I could almost see it if SteamOS gets enough coverage by the various influencers and runs on every handheld form factor gaming PC that isn’t MS or Sony branded.

      Or are you talking about compound interest? Which… I think even Activision and EA would call you crazy for assuming.

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        6 months ago

        It’s Linux because for devs it’s a Linux platform.

        And yeah 11% growth month to month compounds quickly. It won’t hold forever but all things like that are sigmoidal Wich does start as an exponential growth.

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          6 months ago

          Sure, but even using that absurd growth rate continuously it would still take an ADDITIONAL 18 months from what you originally said to hit 50%