Another month has finished and the Steam Hardware & Software Survey has been refreshed. It shows once again that the Linux user share has risen.
Our Steam Tracker has been updated as usual but here's the chart to save you a click:
When you go to the Linux details page, these are the most popular distributions:
- SteamOS Holo 64 bit 13.69% +6.09%
- Arch Linux 64 bit 10.89% -2.98%
- "Manjaro Linux" 64 bit 8.93% -2.47%
- Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS 64 bit 8.20% +8.20%
- Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS 64 bit 7.06% -2.22%
- Linux Mint 20.3 64 bit 4.54% -1.75%
- Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS 64 bit 4.46% -0.44%
- Flatpak runtime 64 bit 4.34% +4.34%
- Other 37.89% +6.29%
It's probably no surprise then that the most popular GPU currently being used on Linux is the Steam Deck too. The Steam Deck GPU accounts for 13.72% of Linux gamers on Steam, with the next most popular being the AMD Radeon RX 480 at 4.81%.
Clearly, the Steam Deck and SteamOS are taking over Linux Gaming and rather quickly too. Interestingly, if you filter to Windows, the Steam Deck GPU doesn't even show up so it's likely overall only a tiny amount of people are actually using Windows on it.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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This looks a bit strange. If you look the combined stats, then Arch Linux is the most used and SteamOS is nowhere to be seen. When you check Linux only then SteamOS is taking the first spot.
I wonder why is that?
I wonder why is that?
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Quoting: LightkeyInteresting. Is their any site to watch these trends? Don't feel like manually doing that :DQuoting: constJust looked at the full stats and windows lost .8% while OSX upped .76. We got .04...
Kind of crazy that OSX gaming is still growing faster then us, while Apple is doing more harm then good to gaming on their platform.
Looking at the change of just one month is pointless, Valve's data is too inaccurate for that. Case in point: there was an uncommon spike in Russian language users last month and most of the Linux gain this month comes from the reverse of that spike, Linux only gained 0.01% points for English language users. MacOS lost about half of their user base in the last two years, so this is hardly a trend.
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In my steam account, the delivery month changes to September.
I can not wait to see him
I can not wait to see him
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CyborgZeta Sep 2, 2022
I don't think I've gotten the survey on my Steam Deck yet, but I have gotten it on my PC, where I'm using the Flatpak runtime.
And speaking of the Flatpak runtime, the freedesktop SDK recently updated to 22.08 so the Steam Flatpak now has access to Mesa 22.
And speaking of the Flatpak runtime, the freedesktop SDK recently updated to 22.08 so the Steam Flatpak now has access to Mesa 22.
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I also wanted to ask for a piece-wise linear fitting, where the slope is changed since steam deck. It's clealy changed the speed of adoption.
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Mohandevir Sep 2, 2022
And it doesn't count the Steam Deck users that don't really use the desktop client (like I do)... These won't get the survey because Gamemode/Gamescope doesn't trigger it, from what I read. So, the Steam Deck market share is probably higher than that.
Edit: Thinking about it, if you are on Windows and use Steam BPM... You won't get the survey either. The results are probably wrong from the start, on both sides of the fence.
Last edited by Mohandevir on 2 September 2022 at 2:27 pm UTC
Edit: Thinking about it, if you are on Windows and use Steam BPM... You won't get the survey either. The results are probably wrong from the start, on both sides of the fence.
Last edited by Mohandevir on 2 September 2022 at 2:27 pm UTC
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gradyvuckovic Sep 2, 2022
Considering SteamOS 3.0 is a relatively new and young 'distro', to already be shooting up the charts like this is very impressive. From what I've seen, gamers love it, both existing and brand new Linux users, it's convincing many of them that Linux is ready to go on their desktops.
When Valve is ready to release SteamOS 3.0 as a regular distro OS, it's going to be a very popular option I believe and we'll probably see quite a few people put it on their laptops or desktops. But I imagine Valve is probably waiting for a number of reasons. Hardware support might be one of them. They could be working with some third parties on that.
If Valve keeps at it, SteamOS could have a very long and successful future.
When Valve is ready to release SteamOS 3.0 as a regular distro OS, it's going to be a very popular option I believe and we'll probably see quite a few people put it on their laptops or desktops. But I imagine Valve is probably waiting for a number of reasons. Hardware support might be one of them. They could be working with some third parties on that.
If Valve keeps at it, SteamOS could have a very long and successful future.
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mr-victory Sep 2, 2022
Quoting: MohandevirThese won't get the survey because Gamemode/Gamescope doesn't trigger it, from what I read.You can still receive survey on game mode.
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NerdNoiseRadio Sep 2, 2022
Okay, well this puts my mind at ease, then! :-)
In comments on previous articles, I had speculated worriedly that the number of Windows installs seemed to have been dramatically more numerous than I had hoped going in, fearing, of course, that the more Windows installs we had on Steam Deck (even in dual-boot situations), the more undercut and muted the potential impact that the Steam Deck would have on propelling the Linux gaming scene could have.
I am quite happy to know that those fears seem to be quite well unfounded thus far, and that it is truly a very, very small number of people putting Windows on their devices. Others had speculated that the idea that it was more runaway was simply the "loud minority on social media" effect at play - and that theory seems to have been borne out!
I stand happily corrected! :-)
Cheers!🍻
In comments on previous articles, I had speculated worriedly that the number of Windows installs seemed to have been dramatically more numerous than I had hoped going in, fearing, of course, that the more Windows installs we had on Steam Deck (even in dual-boot situations), the more undercut and muted the potential impact that the Steam Deck would have on propelling the Linux gaming scene could have.
I am quite happy to know that those fears seem to be quite well unfounded thus far, and that it is truly a very, very small number of people putting Windows on their devices. Others had speculated that the idea that it was more runaway was simply the "loud minority on social media" effect at play - and that theory seems to have been borne out!
I stand happily corrected! :-)
Cheers!🍻
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Quoting: dziadulewiczI think Ubuntu should be combined as so "Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS" on the list.The survey just looks at the LSB name, so that part's not going to change. The interpretation is a different matter, of course. Ubuntu is the most popular distro for Linux Steam users, just as it was last month when people thought that Arch was on top; the split numbers are just an artifact of Ubuntu's release schedule. However, at the rate that Steam Decks have been shipping - and so SteamOS usage has been growing - it seems likely that SteamOS will genuinely be the most-used Linux distro on Steam next month or maybe the month after.
It shows that Ubuntu is still the most popular one LTS's combined. I mean Ubuntu is Ubuntu. The combined share for Ubuntu is 15,26 %.
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