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The Steam Hardware & Software Survey is out for October 2024, and the Linux user share has gone back up again to exactly 2%.

Overall:

  • Windows: 96.61% -0.23%
  • Linux 2.00% +0.13%
  • macOS: 1.39% +0.10%

Quite likely we're seeing the drop of Windows because the English language share overall went up by 8.09%, with Simplified Chinese dropping by 1%. We generally see the Linux share drop when Simplified Chinese on Steam rises, which it had done for two months in a row. So this seems like things going back to a more normal position.

All of the data can be seen on our dedicated Steam Tracker.

On the Linux side here's the most used distributions:

  • SteamOS Holo 64 bit (Steam Deck) 36.79% -2.41%
  • Arch Linux 64 bit 9.54% +0.88%
  • Freedesktop SDK 23.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 6.16% +0.13%
  • Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS 64 bit 5.10% +1.07%
  • Linux Mint 22 64 bit 3.96% +0.23%
  • Manjaro Linux 64 bit 3.33% +0.29%
  • Ubuntu Core 22 64 bit (Steam Snap) 3.06% -0.24%
  • Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS 64 bit 2.92% +2.92%
  • Linux Mint 21.3 64 bit 2.89% +0.17%
  • Other 27.43% -1.84%

See more on the Steam survey.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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3 comments

gradyvuckovic about 2 hours ago
Fantastic.

Looking at the trend over time, it's clearly maintaining steady growth, so we're heading in the right direction, given enough time we might even see 3%.
dpanter 1 hour ago
Quoting: gradyvuckovic3
Clearly you're forgetting Valves threephobia...
_Mars 4 minutes ago
Quoting: dpanter
Quoting: gradyvuckovic3
Clearly you're forgetting Valves threephobia...

Well, I wouldn't complain if we went straight to 4%
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