The Steam Survey outcomes for July 2023 had been simply revealed and it factors to a big and sudden soar within the Linux gaming marketshare. Phoronix studies; In accordance with these new numbers from Valve, the Linux buyer base is as much as 1.96%, or a 0.52% soar over June! That is an enormous soar with usually simply transferring 0.1% or so in both path most months… It is also close to an all-time excessive on a proportion foundation going again to the early days of Steam on Linux when it had round a 2% marketshare however at the moment the Steam buyer measurement in absolute numbers was a lot smaller a decade in the past than it’s now. So if the proportion numbers are correct, that is seemingly the most important in absolute phrases that the Linux gaming marketshare has ever been.
When wanting on the Steam Linux breakdown, the SteamOS Holo that powers the Steam Deck is now accounting for round 42% of all Linux avid gamers on Steam. In the meantime, AMD CPU marketshare amongst Linux avid gamers has reached 69%. The Steam Survey outcomes for July present Home windows 10 64-bit dropping 1.56% marketshare and Linux gaining the wholesome 0.52% of that. That is additionally the primary time the Linux gaming marketshare outpasses Apple macOS on Steam!