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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Also very interesting that the "Language(Linux)" information seems to be wrong, with English sitting at 97.44% and Russian, German, Simplified Chinese all at >4% alone we have more than >100% of languages used on Linux.
I wonder if that is just an error on Valves side or maybe Valve is now counting all enabled languages for Linux systems (in that case values above 100% would obviously make sense).
Last edited by Lamdarer on 2 November 2024 at 3:05 pm UTC
I wonder if that is just an error on Valves side or maybe Valve is now counting all enabled languages for Linux systems (in that case values above 100% would obviously make sense).
Last edited by Lamdarer on 2 November 2024 at 3:05 pm UTC
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Quoting: LamdarerAlso very interesting that the "Language(Linux)" information seems to be wrong, with English sitting at 97.44% and Russian, German, Simplified Chinese all at >4% alone we have more than >100% of languages used on Linux.Does it count people who use more than one language when playing games?
I wonder if that is just an error on Valves side or maybe Valve is now counting all enabled languages for Linux systems (in that case values above 100% would obviously make sense).
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A strange motable thing this month is:
"SteamOS Holo" 64 bit 36.79% -2.41%
AMD AMD Custom GPU 0405 35.72% +9.76%
AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV VANGOGH) 19.40% +6.01%
Custom 0405 is the SD LCD and the other is SD OLED. So SD is actually at 55.12%. Now for the first time more than half of linux users. Not the 36.79% that Holo suggests.
It is not easy to guess why. The difference is too big to be hidden into other.
Actually something is very wrong with the GPUs. They add up to more than 100%.
Last edited by lucinos on 2 November 2024 at 4:08 pm UTC
"SteamOS Holo" 64 bit 36.79% -2.41%
AMD AMD Custom GPU 0405 35.72% +9.76%
AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV VANGOGH) 19.40% +6.01%
Custom 0405 is the SD LCD and the other is SD OLED. So SD is actually at 55.12%. Now for the first time more than half of linux users. Not the 36.79% that Holo suggests.
It is not easy to guess why. The difference is too big to be hidden into other.
Actually something is very wrong with the GPUs. They add up to more than 100%.
Last edited by lucinos on 2 November 2024 at 4:08 pm UTC
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Quoting: lucinosA strange motable thing this month is:Argh. I don't expect statistics based on sampling to be a perfect representation of the territory, but it would be nice if they were internally consistent, like they at least represented a possible version of the territory.
"SteamOS Holo" 64 bit 36.79% -2.41%
AMD AMD Custom GPU 0405 35.72% +9.76%
AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV VANGOGH) 19.40% +6.01%
Custom 0405 is the SD LCD and the other is SD OLED. So SD is actually at 55.12%. Now for the first time more than half of linux users. Not the 36.79% that Holo suggests.
It is not easy to guess why. The difference is too big to be hidden into other.
Actually something is very wrong with the GPUs. They add up to more than 100%.
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