Steam's November 2016 Metrics Put Linux Gaming Marketshare At 0.88%
With the start of the new month comes updated statistics from Valve with their Steam Survey.
For November 2016, the Steam Survey shows Linux with a 0.88% marketshare, or a decrease of 0.01%. Ubuntu 16.10 gained ground while the other popular Linux distributions saw no change to slight drops. Steam meanwhile saw 95.4% of users on Windows and 3.59% on macOS.
The Linux-specific stats continue to show 1920 x 1080 as most popular, Intel HD Graphics being the most common for graphics, the GTX 970 being the most commonly used NVIDIA card on Linux while the Radeon R9 200 series on the AMD side. Linux gamers overwhelmingly use Intel CPUs with 82.7% versus AMD with just 17%.
Those wanting to dig through the updated Steam Survey statistics can find all of the numbers at SteamPowered.com.
For November 2016, the Steam Survey shows Linux with a 0.88% marketshare, or a decrease of 0.01%. Ubuntu 16.10 gained ground while the other popular Linux distributions saw no change to slight drops. Steam meanwhile saw 95.4% of users on Windows and 3.59% on macOS.
The Linux-specific stats continue to show 1920 x 1080 as most popular, Intel HD Graphics being the most common for graphics, the GTX 970 being the most commonly used NVIDIA card on Linux while the Radeon R9 200 series on the AMD side. Linux gamers overwhelmingly use Intel CPUs with 82.7% versus AMD with just 17%.
Those wanting to dig through the updated Steam Survey statistics can find all of the numbers at SteamPowered.com.
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