The Steam Survey outcomes for July 2023 have been simply printed and it factors to a big and sudden bounce within the Linux gaming marketshare. Phoronix studies; Based on these new numbers from Valve, the Linux buyer base is as much as 1.96%, or a 0.52% bounce over June! That is an enormous bounce with usually simply shifting 0.1% or so in both course 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 possible the biggest in absolute phrases that the Linux gaming marketshare has ever been.
When trying on the Steam Linux breakdown, the SteamOS Holo that powers the Steam Deck is now accounting for round 42% of all Linux players on Steam. In the meantime, AMD CPU marketshare amongst Linux players has reached 69%. The Steam Survey outcomes for July present Home windows 10 64-bit shedding 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!
