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4mo ago

Linux at 2% on Steam November Hardware Survey

store.steampowered.com Steam Hardware & Software Survey

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Not really news. It's been floating around 2% for a while.
- It was around 5%. Ban on online games might have affected.
  
  Isn't that the global market share of Linux itself

Finally, the year of the Linux desktop

I wonder if that includes steamdecks running steamos
- Absolutely does
  
  Ah ok thanks for that.

I can't remember who does a more comprehensive survey, but the overall Linux gaming share is ≈4%. So, Steam users are about half of that, if I'm understanding correctly.
- No, I mean 4% of the overall Linux desktop share does some amount of gaming. This is based on a survey, and I can't for the life of me remember who does it. It will show up again, with updated totals, on one of these communities eventually.
- so a disproportionately large amount (2x) of Linux gamers don't use steam? that doesn't sound right to me with how good steam is on Linux
  
  Some people prefer GOG, some people do itch.io or FOSS games, some people only do emulation. It's possible that I'm misinterpreting the data, too, but Steam having 50% of the gaming share with the other 50% spread amongst other platforms and activities doesn't seem that outlandish to me.

Must be because Factorio released 2.0 and the Space Age DLC recently.

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