Well it finally happened. According to the latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey for July 2023 we can see that Linux users have overtaken macOS.
For July 2023 the rankings overall are:
- Windows 96.21% -0.56%
- macOS 1.84% +0.05%
- Linux 1.96% +0.52%
As shown on our dedicated Steam Tracker here's the Linux user share on Steam over time:
A pretty massive increase and the biggest in a single month for years. So why? Well, considering Valve just recently had a huge sale on the Steam Deck, it's probably not all that surprising. A lot of people over the last month will have been playing with their Steam Deck that ships with SteamOS Linux. So I do expect it to go down a fair bit next month as things settle down again but I imagine it will continue trending higher overall and keep pushing upwards.
Here's the current most popular Linux distributions - showing that SteamOS (Steam Deck) is the clear winner:
- SteamOS Holo 64 bit 42.07% +2.74%
- Arch Linux 64 bit 7.94% -0.39%
- Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS 64 bit 7.38% -0.49%
- Freedesktop.org SDK 22.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 5.99% -0.03%
- "Manjaro Linux" 64 bit 4.29% -0.08%
- Linux Mint 21.1 64 bit 3.84% -0.71%
- Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS 64 bit 2.97% +2.97%
- Other 25.52% -4.02%
What do you think to this news? Let us know in the comments.
See all the details on Valve's survey.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: dpanterWell, historically speaking every substantial deviation from the trend stemmed from flawed data and was typically corrected before long... but I'll take it. :)
Phoronix observed that Chinese language has dropped by 3 or 4 percent last month...
Quoting: TuxeeQuoting: dpanterWell, historically speaking every substantial deviation from the trend stemmed from flawed data and was typically corrected before long... but I'll take it. :)
Phoronix observed that Chinese language has dropped by 3 or 4 percent last month...
This won't make Linux jump up 25%.
(See the MacOs numbers, that went up a mere 2.7% (= 0.05 / 1,79).)
Last edited by Eike on 2 August 2023 at 11:11 am UTC
Quoting: dpanterWell, historically speaking every substantial deviation from the trend stemmed from flawed data and was typically corrected before long... but I'll take it. :)
It does look as plausible as the March numbers, yes.
But the trend is still going in the right direction.
legluondunet Aug 2, 2023
They missed the Vulkan turn and isolated themselves with their exotic graphics specs.
mr-victory Aug 2, 2023
Spoiler, click me
Last edited by mr-victory on 2 August 2023 at 11:31 am UTC
spacemonkey Aug 2, 2023
Quoting: spacemonkeyMaybe there's an error in the Pop!_OS data. It is 2.97% of Linux users and gained 2.97%, meaning it was 0% previous month.. Does not seem correct to me.It always does that on the Linux-specific data when they start showing a distro. Pop wasn't listed last month. It's odd but it does it any time a "new" distro appears in the list.
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