Steam On Linux Marketshare Crawls Up To 1.27% For August 2022

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Steam On Linux Marketshare Crawls Up To 1.27% For August 2022

Valve just published the Steam Survey results for August 2022 that show a slight increase to Linux gaming as part of the overall marketshare on a percentage basis...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-August-2022

[Lbibass]

Fantastic! Glad to see it. Steam Deck is doing wonders for Linux gaming. I love mine to death.

[middy]

i finally got the steam survey today on linux

[otoomet]

If Steam Deck is 13.69% of linux users, and linux share is 1.27, then non-Steam Deck linux share is (1 - 0.1369)*1.27 = 1.096 percent. I do not think I have seen such high (in relative terms) figure before the Deck.

Obviously, unless we know more about the methodology we cannot say much about the value of these numbers.

[Eirikr1848]

i finally got the steam survey today on linux

In over 11 years of using Steam I’ve gotten the survey one time… when I was signed in to a NUC with a Celeron 847E last month to see if it would play Sim City 4 🤦♂️

I feel like that is the most useless contribution to the survey as it does not actually reflect my true Steam hardware utilization….

…. but I enjoy seeing legacy devices represented so ✌️ I guess

[HEL88]

Valve sold a few Steam Decks (e.g. i no body know who buy it) and SteamOS now is the first place. Funny .

[Eirikr1848]

If Steam Deck is 13.69% of linux users, and linux share is 1.27, then non-Steam Deck linux share is (1 - 0.1369)*1.27 = 1.096 percent. I do not think I have seen such high (in relative terms) figure before the Deck.

Obviously, unless we know more about the methodology we cannot say much about the value of these numbers.

The Steam Deck allows Linux to feel accessible.

I am optimistic that more KDE users will contribute to an improved KDE experience over time.

[yoshi314]

The Steam Deck allows Linux to feel accessible.

I am optimistic that more KDE users will contribute to an improved KDE experience over time.

gamers are the most entitled and ungrateful userbase one could wish for. i am not exactly thrilled.

[JPFSanders]

gamers are the most entitled and ungrateful userbase one could wish for. i am not exactly thrilled.

Can you believe the cheeky bastards expect their hardware and software to run their games? I've seen them drop to desktop mode and expect things like copying and pasting to work (I'm looking at you KDE, in the past not a good track record, although much better lately)

Such an entitlement, so much ungratefulness, expecting things to work...

[birdie]

Valve sold a few Steam Decks (e.g. i no body know who buy it) and SteamOS now is the first place. Funny .

Funny? It's quite sad really - it shows how few Linux users actually game. Or it shows how few Linux users are there overall. I guess both are true.