Comment

Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark

I think it will continue to rise. People are updating their rigs all the time. Whenever they update their rig they’ll have to ask themselves whether they want to continue with Windows on their new rig, or try with something new.

The vast majority of this increase is from people playing on Steam Decks, which run on Linux, not from people switching to Linux on their PCs.

If it continues to rise, this is the reason. The general public is less and less into using a desktop at all as time goes on, much less running, and much less changing to, an extremely niche operating system on one.

source

Sort:hotnew top

BigPotato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Actually, the raw number percentage shows that the increase is due to Mint, Ubuntu, and Bazzite. Maybe people are installing Bazzite on their Deck but likely not the other two.

source
- cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Hannah Montana Linux support for Steam Deck when?
  
  source
  - jlow@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Not too soon(of you wanna run it in bare metal):
    
    xda-developers.com/i-tried-hannah-montana-linux-i…
    
    source
- TJDetweiler@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I switched from Windows to Bazzite on my main rig 2 weeks ago. Likely won’t go back to Windows for gaming as I’ve had pretty much no issues with Bazzite.
  
  I did also get a Steam deck recently, so anecdotally, both above answers are right.
  
  Insert “I’m doing my part” meme
  
  source
- atmorous@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I want to say that I’ve been helping people get onto Mint and Bazzite. Going to pat myself on the back for contributing what little I can to grow this awesome community
  
  source
magic_lobster_party@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The portion of people playing on SteamOS is steadily decreasing, which means new Linux users are on SteamOS to a lesser extent.

source
CountVon@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

The vast majority of this increase is from people playing on Steam Decks

I believe this is incorrect. The Steam survey break down GPUs by description and the Deck’s GPU appears in the results as “AMD Vangogh”, which only accounts for 0.39% of respondents. That implies that the vast majority of survey respondents using Linux are actually on PC, not the Deck.

source
- Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  the Deck’s GPU appears in the results as “AMD Vangogh”
  
  I bet it’s EXCELLENT at rendering sunflowers!
  
  source
  - overworkedandundersane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Not so good at ears, though.
    
    source
turdas@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
That’s not true. You can see on Steam Hardware Survey what OS people are running, and SteamOS only makes up 27% of Linux users on Steam, so the vast majority are on regular PCs.

source
- Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Certainly interesting to look at the fastest-growing distros: Ubuntu (the well-known, popular option), Bazzite (the gaming-marketed one), Freedesktop (someone else can answer this for me), and CachyOS (the side-gaming one? Not quite a gaming OS but very good at it)
  
  source
  - turdas@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    “Freedesktop SDK” means the user is running Steam via Flatpak. They could be on any distro.
    
    source
- damnedfurry@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The vast majority of the increase, is what I said. In other words, I’m saying it wouldn’t be nearly at the 3% mark without those users, and with over a quarter of all Linux users coming from the Steam Deck userbase, that is, in fact, true.
  
  source
  - turdas@suppo.fi ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Without the Steam Deck there’d be 27% fewer Linux users. So while that would indeed mean Linux wouldn’t yet be 3% of the total Steam userbase, I think you will find that 27% is not the majority.
    
    GamingOnLinux aggregates this data in a nicer way and as you can see there, the total Linux market share has gone from <1% five years ago to the 3% it is now. If that increase was mainly thanks to the Steam Deck, it would have to make up more like 75% of the Linux userbase rather than only 27%.
    
    Instead, as others have pointed out, SteamOS’s share has actually gone down rather than up, which is a natural consequence of the Steam Deck being relatively old now so fewer are being sold.
    
    source
- richardwallass@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  [deleted]
  source
  - Dojan@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    They said Steam OS, not Steam Deck.
    
    If you click on “Linux Version” it expands into a list. Steam OS Holo is the largest portion, but not the majority portion. Image
    
    source
  - turdas@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    “SteamOS Holo” 64 bit is the Steam Deck.
    
    source
KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Nope, handhelds can be eval in separately from operating systems

source