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Steam On Linux(1.96%) Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS(1.84%) (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

~~202120222023~~2024 is the year of the Linux desktop

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

When looking at the Steam Linux breakdown, the SteamOS Holo that powers the Steam Deck is now accounting for around 42% of all Linux gamers on Steam.

While the increase is great, it - sadly - doesn't look like it.

[–] Thaurin 8 points 2 years ago

Hey, I use the desktop on my Steam Deck all the time for normal computer use!

[–] cyberpunk007 2 points 2 years ago

2077

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Even though this is mostly because of the Steam Deck, it's still great news. More people get to try out Linux and find out how good the support for gaming on Linux is nowadays. Some may even feel compelled to switch to it on their main machine, especially after Microsoft drops Windows 10 support and forces everyone to upgrade to Windows 11 (which, while certainly better now, still feels like a downgrade IMO).

[–] cyberpunk007 1 points 2 years ago

Agreed, and as a side not the steam deck is actually fucking awesome.

[–] Postcard64 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not seeing anyone comment on the last paragraph of the article, so I'll paste it here.

With the SteamOS / Steam Deck monthly numbers not showing any magnificent gains, I am curious over this 0.5% increase for Linux gaming overall and whether it's genuine.

The likely explanation is when looking at the demographics and seeing Steam by Chinese users dropping 3.4% while the English usage picked up by 3.4%. Chinese gamers and reporting differences there have previously vastly swayed Steam statistics in prior months.

So this might just be a maths artifact.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are there numbers on Steam Deck sales?

[–] just_another_person 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All they said for sure was they sold out their first two production runs which were based on pre-order numbers, and that was over 1mil at the time they said that. Found this quote though:

"According to Omdia, the Steam Deck sold an estimated 1.62 million units in 2022, and is on track to sell about 1.85 million units throughout 2023. This would push total Steam Deck unit sales to 3.47 million by the end of 2023."

So if true, they blew through those first units super fast, and then ramped production again. I'm sure they sold a ton last month when t was 20% off for Summer Sale as well.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

nice

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I made the switch fully recently. It's honestly nicer overall for sure. Glad to see things picking up. The more that move over, the more support Linux will get.

[–] mhz 6 points 2 years ago

Thank you for sharing, great to see we are growing!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Niceee, let's go my dudes and dudettes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I’m happy for the growth— but are we sure this isn’t just from the increased counts due to the steam deck?

I read further; “When looking at the Steam Linux breakdown, the SteamOS Holo that powers the Steam Deck is now accounting for around 42% of all Linux gamers on Steam. “

[–] ghariksforge 1 points 2 years ago

Basically the Linux usebase doubled thanks to the Deck.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Just installed Pop OS a few days ago and already got the survey, so I guess I'm helping?

That said, gaming on Linux is still a bit too fiddly to set up for your average person. Out of the 6 games I played so far, I had to tinker with 3 of them to get them running, despite having none of these problems on a Steam Deck. Though the common theme seems to be non-Steam launchers (Ubisoft Connect, Riot Games and FFXIV) causing them.

For non-gaming purposes (browsing, programming, multimedia) on the other hand it's been smooth sailing.

[–] ghariksforge 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there a breakdown of Steam Deck vs other Linux?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

literally open the article

[–] ghariksforge 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I was hoping someone would be kind enough to tell me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I come to the comments so I don't have to read the article as well.

Then I'll add extra comments using only the information in the comments section.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This is the way

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's also the thumbnail for the link. I don't know what the input is for other apps but on sync I could long press it to hover the image with the breakdown and one of the others I used just makes the previews fit to begin with.

But since I'm such a great servant to random people, deck: as in title, arch Linux and Ubuntu: 0.1 and change, Manjaro and mint(? I already forgot): 0.0something ... I have 256kb of memory and most of it is reserved by bloatware.

[–] JoeKrogan 2 points 2 years ago

Good to see the continued growth

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Spikes"? Come on, guys, .04 percent is a rounding error.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

It went from 1.5% to nearly 2% thats quite a big spike