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1 year agoFortunately Valve publishes monthly hardware statistics so we can back claims with statistics. Linux comprises 2.89% of their surveyed share. Of that 28.31% are using Steam OS. Using the wayback machine we can check the statistics from last year. Checking the July 2024 results using the Wayback Machine shows Linux at 2.08% with Steam OS comprising 40.97% of that.
From that we can see that Linux is growing, while Steam OS is becoming less of a contributing factor to the Linux share.
From my understanding, it’s the opposite. Zswap is the better one since it has a ZRAM-like compressed section of RAM and disk-backed swap. That’s definitely an oversimplification though.
I agree it’s confusing. I always look it up during setup so I know which one to use.