Linux share on Steam back to nearly 2% thanks to Steam Deck
After a couple of months of the Linux user share on Steam dropping, the November 2023 Steam Hardware & Software Survey shows it shooting back up again. With Steam Deck continuing to push Linux gaming. See the data over time on the GOL Steam Tracker.
As mentioned in the last article for October 2023’s numbers, the issue was something we’ve seen quite a few times now. A sudden surge of Simplified Chinese as a language on Steam, which pretty much always brings down the Linux and macOS share. Things look back to normal again now though.
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The current numbers:
- Windows 96.56%
- Linux 1.91%
- macOS 1.53%
When filtering just to the Linux numbers we can see that SteamOS Holo (Steam Deck) continues to be what’s pushing the numbers up overall:
- SteamOS Holo 64 bit 42.99% +0.68%
- Arch Linux 64 bit 7.81% +0.27%
- Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS 64 bit 6.67% -0.06%
- Freedesktop.org SDK 23.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 5.33% -0.40%
- Linux Mint 21.2 64 bit 4.25% +0.32%
- Manjaro Linux 64 bit 3.79% -0.16%
- Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS 64 bit 2.68% +2.68%
- Other 26.48% -3.33%
See the full survey on Steam.
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