alt Hacker NewsI would argue that Steam and Homebrew users are relatively niche portions of the userbase, and that they would be more likely to own newer systems.
Neither statistic comes from a sample group that's more representative of the average user, who is mostly browsing the web and using a handful of undemanding applications, and is therefore less motivated to upgrade for performance reasons.
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kstrauser • yesterday at 8:09 PM
Maybe for Steam, but my gut instinct is that Homebrew would be the opposite: it would be disproportionately popular among devs who pride themselves on keeping hardware for many years longer than most people. "Yeah, this 2015 MBP isn't great for gaming anymore, but it's fine for running vim!" is absolutely the kind of thing I hear frequently.
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I'm not convinced either of those are substantially more niche than people who need to install the JDK