What’s Linux’s marketshare on Steam? The Steam Survey numbers inform this story:
11/24: 2.03%
12/24: 2.29%
01/25: 2.06%
02:25: 1.45%
“The February numbers present a staggering 0.61% drop to Linux use…” stories Phoronix. However they attribute this to an sampling error:
In keeping with the survey, it exhibits 50% of Steam customers utilizing the Simplified Chinese language language pack [a 20% increase from the month before]. In prior months the place there was drops to Linux use, it has been correlated to wild swings within the Chinese language use on Steam. This seems to be to be one other such month.
Of the Linux particular information, SteamOS continues to show hottest for that Valve distribution powering the Steam Deck [at 34.67%, with Arch Linux coming in second at 9.7%].
AMD CPUs energy round 70% of the Linux gaming techniques because of the Steam Deck APU and AMD Ryzen being fairly standard with Linux fans.