If Linux market share on Steam were counted for English only users, it would be 5.75%, compared to the overall Linux market share
Interesting. How was this data extracted?
AFAIK Linux is not doing well in China, and China has been known to skew the Steam stats a lot before. China uses bots heavily on Steam for mining in games.
Anyways it's cool that we can see Linux is doing well on Steam now, despite influential factors like China.
It would be interesting to see the amount of purchases made on Linux vs other operating systems. I think that's the number that counts more than anything else.
mining in games
What do they mine? Is it just farming progress to sell accounts later or something else?
Pretty much. They also sell gold, crafting materials, and items for real money. If you spend a bit of time playing just about any mmo, you’ll see bots and gold sellers all the time.
I'm guessing mining for lootboxes and items. Never underestimate people's ability find money in an absurd waste of resources.
In a lot of mmos, people will farm in game resources and sell them for real money.
Yeah farming or mining whatever you can do.
They sell everything for real money, complete accounts with upgraded characters, or rare items or whatever has value in a game.
It's a random sampling of devices. That's why looking at the English only numbers are more consistent. Sometimes the randomness is heavily skewed to China, and sometimes has very little China. See here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/#languagesanchor
probably because the internationalisation efforts are usually worse
we didnt get more % linux users but one thing is interesting: on the steam hardware survey windows lost % in all eurolanguages! it gained in trukish, chinese and other asian languages. so the boycott is having an effect. feel free to post this info anywhere :)
This is similar to the Linux 5,1% market share registered by Pornhub last year:
https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2024-year-in-review#devices-tech
Sales numbers ($) by platform would be interesting to see too.
The metric developers really care about.
I work with/in (giggity) indie devs. One dev I work with has a slack bot spamming out sales data daily which contains breakdowns by platform.
For his indie game, across the last 7 days it's roughly 94.3% Windows, 2.0% Mac, and 3.7% Linux. The game has native builds for all 3 platforms, including Mac's ARM chips.
While I do agree, I dunno how meaningful or realistic data it would offer when some users switch between platforms.
Thank to then activating proton on linux i think i will switch to linux. I just love playing AAA games to much.
Only AAA games that don't work on linux are pretty much anti cheat slop.
What?
They said: THANK TO THEN ACTIVATING PROTON ON LINUX I THINK I WILL SWITCH TO LINUX. I JUST LOVE PLAYING AAA GAMES TO MUCH.
Yeah sorry. I meant i will probably switch to linux because they activated proton for most Linux distros(or all, im not really versed in this). I didn't switch yet because so many AAA games didn't work natively on steam and i like to play them. Hope this is a bit more clear 😅
If it was counted for every locale it'll be more.
That's not so far off from Pornhub's Year In Review 2024 that had the Linux share of the desktop space at 5.1%.
Just sayin.
I would absolutely not use Windows for pornhub. There's a 99% chance Satya is watching you masturbate.
Some people might be into that. Don't kink shame.
Fuck, guess I'm switching back to windows!
I would venture to say a very large portion of Pornhub consumption is on mobile.
I mean if that's the case I'll switch back to Windows just to remind Satya of what his company's name truly means.