The (Arch Linux-powered) Steam Deck was launched in February of 2022 — and Phoronix studies that is serving to Linux’s market share on Steam. “Whereas July was at 1.96% for Linux, the August numbers [from SteamPowered.com] present a 0.14% dip to 1.82%.
Apparently, macOS dipped by 0.27% to 1.57% whereas Home windows rose by 0.4% to 96.61%. For these questioning why the Steam Linux numbers dropped whereas the Steam Deck continues to be highly regarded, it is presumably once more one other month impacted by giant swings in Chinese language site visitors… SteamOS Holo that powers the Steam Deck gained one other 2% marketshare to now commanding round 44% of the reported Linux players.
Amongst Linux players, AMD CPUs energy round 71% of the programs. Partially as a result of Steam Deck being powered by an AMD APU. In the meantime Steam on Home windows has the AMD CPU marketshare at round 33%.