We have another fresh Steam Hardware & Software Survey for October 2023 and the results show that Simplified Chinese as a language on Steam has another sharp jump resulting in some odd results. Be sure to check out our Steam Tracker.
This is the second month in a row we've seen Simplified Chinese jump up. This time it shows it at 45.93% (+13.71%), which for a single month is pretty huge swing. This has resulted in Windows 10 64 bit hitting 65.58% (+7.61%), sitting well above Windows 11. Every time this uptick in Simplified Chinese use on Steam happens, it brings down the results of everything else. Previously we saw that Valve reported it as an error but this time it may not be, it could just be a case of people using VPNs to access Steam normally - we just don't know.
So right now here's the main results:
- Windows 97.43% +0.49%
- Linux 1.39% -0.24%
- macOS 1.19% -0.24%
On the Linux side these are the most used distributions on Steam:
- SteamOS Holo 64 bit (Steam Deck) 42.31% -0.73%
- Arch Linux 64 bit 7.54% -0.55%
- Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS 64 bit 6.73% +0.24%
- Freedesktop.org SDK 23.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 5.73% +5.73%
- Manjaro Linux 64 bit 3.95% +0.04%
- Linux Mint 21.2 64 bit 3.93% +0.26%
- Other 29.81% -4.98%
All the details can be seen on Steam.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: Purple Library GuyAs usual, my takeaway from this kind of thing is, we need to get the Chinese using Linux.
The government is moving in the right direction by ditching Windows and supporting distros like Deepin, OpenKylin, etc.
The problem as you could have guessed, is software, there are lots of programs unavailable on Linux and that's slowing down the process.
Only after the govt switches, there will be a push for general users to switch. That's 5+ years easy.
Quoting: enigmaxg2Quoting: Purple Library GuyAs usual, my takeaway from this kind of thing is, we need to get the Chinese using Linux.
The government is moving in the right direction by ditching Windows and supporting distros like Deepin, OpenKylin, etc.
The problem as you could have guessed, is software, there are lots of programs unavailable on Linux and that's slowing down the process.
Only after the govt switches, there will be a push for general users to switch. That's 5+ years easy.
China's Linux usage on desktop seems to be on par with the global average, even slightly above. The issue at hand is that the steam survey results from China seem to mostly come from Internet cafés, which of course need to use Windows in order to run all games. IIRC that also skewed the results because every computer was counted multiple times or some such?
QuoteAbove 1 TB 65.15%
Are people re-using HDDs from their old computers? I have 512GiB for years now and it has been enough.
Quoting: jaycAnother odd stats for me it's the amount of disk space people have :D
QuoteAbove 1 TB 65.15%
Are people re-using HDDs from their old computers? I have 512GiB for years now and it has been enough.
Yes - and I'm reusing old SSDs. (Current setup: SanDisk 120 GB, Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB, Samsung 980 1 TB.) And a cheap 2 TB SSD is available for under 80 bucks.
By the way, I had a 512 GB disk at work. Docker on WSL took 100 GB alone. Ordered an additional 2 TB SSD to hopefully get rid of those problems.
Ah, and some gamers seem to keep all there games installed. Some due to "data plans", other just because they like to.
Last edited by Eike on 10 November 2023 at 7:53 pm UTC
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