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Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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According to these new numbers from Valve, the Linux customer base is up to 1.96%, or a 0.52% jump over June! That's a huge jump with normally just moving 0.1% or so in either direction most months... It's also near an all-time high on a percentage basis going back to the early days of Steam on Linux when it had around a 2% marketshare but at that time the Steam customer size in absolute numbers was much smaller a decade ago than it is now. So if the percentage numbers are accurate, this is likely the largest in absolute terms that the Linux gaming marketshare has ever been.

Data from Valve: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam?platform=combined

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I'm doing my part, I have installed Steam on two new Ubuntu installs recently, lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NixOS on steam deck is currently my daily driver because it's dedicated, portable linux hardware with better than iGPU performance I can actually afford. Having said that I'm only about a week in, but adding Jovian NixOS modules to my previous configs has been enough to make it a pretty solid experience so far. Amazing portable gaming is a nice bonus.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

How does NixOS compare to SteamOS on the Deck? Does it work just as smooth? Also, is EMUDeck compatible with NixOS?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I would fully switch to linux - I have done some dabbling with it, including setting up a media PC w/ steam on it - but I cannot run any of my business or productivity apps.

Specifically, Autocad, Revit, and VR software do not work. So wahwah

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm one of these statistics. I got a cheap SSD on Prime Day and installed Pop!_OS. The first thing I did was install Steam.

I still boot to Windows the majority of my time because of other apps or games that I need but I'm trying to get away from Windows.

[–] abraham_linksys 4 points 1 year ago

That's an almost 25% increase, that's huge!

[–] Aurenkin 3 points 1 year ago

This is awesome! Hopefully we see even more devices coming out with SteamOS in the near future

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

Suck on that apple

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