Linux user share on Steam continues rising — highest for years again

By Liam Dawe - 2 Aug 2022 at 11:44 am UTC

Valve has put out their usual monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey and it's looking like good news for Linux and Steam Deck once again.

We've seen the user share rise up to 1.23%, making it the highest point in multiple years (again). If we use Valve's last monthly active user count, that points the monthly active Linux user count somewhere around 1,623,600. See more on our Steam Tracker. Linux has remained at 1% or above for at least a full year now too.

According to the survey when filtering just to Linux, here are the most popular distributions:

Arch Linux 64 bit 13.87% +2.45%

Manjaro Linux 64 bit 11.40% +1.29%

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 64 bit 9.78% -0.12%

Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS 64 bit 9.28% -0.45%

SteamOS Holo 64 bit 7.60% +0.02%

Linux Mint 20.3 64 bit 6.29% -0.16%

Freedesktop.org 21.08.14 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 5.29% -0.76%

Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS 64 bit 4.90% +0.11%

Other 31.60% -2.36%

So we're seeing Valve's SteamOS now make up 7.6% of the Linux gaming audience on Steam, which is a pretty good early showing for the Steam Deck. In terms of hardware, on the Linux side the Steam Deck appears to be the most popular device as it's now top of the list of GPUs used too.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Steam Deck, Misc, Steam, Valve

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amatai 3 Aug 2022

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I am wondering which part of the increase is due to the steam deck. That require a bit of algebra but that would be interesting.

Ok, with some assumption and quick mental math steamdeck is responsible than a bit less of 10% of the increase of Linux share. As the proportion of steam deck is mostly stable inside Linux it participate to the grow according to its ratio.
Good news is that Linux is still over 1% and growing if you count steam deck separately even if Steam Deck outgrow Linux desktop growth.

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mr-victory 3 Aug 2022

Maybe the remaining 0.04% Linux users really are crazy enough to get SteamOS 3.x running on another computer, we are talking about Linux users after all..

I did that last month and the diff was %0.01 back then emoji

Probably that month %0.01 consisted of me and only me.

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trev0r 6 Aug 2022

Year of Linux incoming ;)

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