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The trend appears to be continuing, with the August numbers up from Valve which show Linux now at 1.02%. You can see a bit of history over on our dedicated Steam Tracker.
Using the latest months recorded share that's an estimated 1,228,080 "monthly active" Linux users on Steam, based on the last data Valve gave from January 2021. Going by the data that Steam provide we can see a breakdown of the most popular Linux distributions (when filtered to just Linux) on Steam right now as these:
- Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS 64 bit - 15.77%
- Manjaro Linux 64 bit - 12.72%
- Arch Linux 64 bit - 11.14%
- Pop!_OS 21.04 64 bit - 7.36%
- Ubuntu 21.04 64 bit - 6.60%
- Linux Mint 20.2 64 bit 5.50%
You can also see that Steam Flatpak shows up being used by 5.58% of Linux/Steam users.
Want to see what systems our readers are running? Check out our statistics page.
We expect the hype around the Steam Deck and Proton getting some bigger mentions from Valve has helped. Since the Steam Deck is a Linux machine with SteamOS 3 being based on Arch Linux, it's not overly surprising to see a bump in people trying Linux out before the release.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
StalePopcorn Sep 7, 2021
slaapliedje Sep 7, 2021
More seriously, this is pretty sweet. I don't know how, with the lack of any decent 3d hardware on the Macs for decades, how they're still higher on Steam usage, but whatever.
Are there really hard core Mac gamers?
slaapliedje Sep 13, 2021
Quoting: wonkoOnce Proton has full support for RTX and DLSS I won't have to reboot into Windows to play games that use those technologies. I hope we see an increase of Linux gamers after that!Kind of thought that had started to work?
Was figuring I should start playing Cyberpunk 2077, now that it should be patched a lot...
Last edited by slaapliedje on 13 September 2021 at 4:42 pm UTC
Quoting: slaapliedjeQuoting: nenoroand 0.001% GentooI always thought of Gentoo users as people who enjoy walking down dark alleys and getting mugged. 😜
Probably the only one who uses gentoo and plays games on it...
I just hope Valve switches for gentoo for steam OS hue hue hue
mugged by our own devs yes XD
Quoting: AnzaQuoting: nenoroand 0.001% Gentoo
Probably the only one who uses gentoo and plays games on it...
I just hope Valve switches for gentoo for steam OS hue hue hue
Not the only one for sure, I use Gentoo and play games. Gentoo is just not for everybody and that's OK. If people find installing Arch hard, telling them to unpack the base operating system in order to compile the rest might be bit too much.
both are easy to install after you retry over and over
Quoting: YvanoffQuoting: nenoroand 0.001% GentooA fellow Gentoo user !
Probably the only one who uses gentoo and plays games on it...
I just hope Valve switches for gentoo for steam OS hue hue hue
I recently built a desktop Gaming rig and I slapped Windows on it (tried to use Gentoo but I was too lazy I just want to game without hassle), so I don't game much on my Gentoo laptop anymore, but I still use it when travelling or for light games I want to play in my bed. So nice to see other Steam Gentoo users !
don't worry gaming on linux is way easy than expected so far no issue excepted for valhalla who is not an optimized product
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