Steam On Linux Use Steady For June, ~40% Of Linux Gamers Are Using The Steam Deck

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Steam On Linux Use Steady For June, ~40% Of Linux Gamers Are Using The Steam Deck

Valve has shared their Steam Survey results for the month of June which shows the Steam on Linux marketshare holding steady...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-June-2023-Statistics

[tildearrow]

Coffee:

In Msy

June results ofr the

[discordian]

Typo: "Linux Gamers" -> "guys that want to affect useless stats"

[HEL88]

Linux -0.03% and the same time Deck +14%. So, seems like linux users throw gaming on theirs desktop and change to Deck.

[Old Grouch]

For June the Steam Survey results show a slight <drop> (0.03%) to 1.44%.

I think you dropped the word drop from that sentence. And possibly a missing comma after June.

Edit to add: And the last sentence has a typo:

See more of the June results ofr the Steam Survey at steampowered.com.

[skeevy420]

Last month I was surveyed within 5 minutes of reading the article on Steam Linux usage during May. The joke's gonna be on Valve for my July Steam gaming numbers. Yesterday I remembered about the Callisto Protocol/Dead Island 2 bundle I got when I bought my GPU so I downloaded Dead Island 2 and I'm currently launching Epic from Steam to play it because I need the Steam controller options.

[Berniyh]

Linux -0.03% and the same time Deck +14%. So, seems like linux users throw gaming on theirs desktop and change to Deck.

These are relative numbers, so you can't read anything like that into it.
Could be just an effect of summer on the northern hemisphere meaning that less people game at all, an effect which might be less strong for mobile gamers (due to the easy availability).

bottom line: don't even bother trying to interpret such effects, if you don't have the changes in total numbers, there is no point.

[rmfx]

The great thing with SteamOS, it is that now game devs have a single Linux platform to target.
the bad thing is that Valve doesn’t provide an iso.

[Almindor]

The great thing with SteamOS, it is that now game devs have a single Linux platform to target.
the bad thing is that Valve doesn’t provide an iso.

People don't target linux as a platform for games anymore. They just do windows and expect Proton to work, perhaps doing a quick test of that. It makes more sense this way.

[rmfx]

People don't target linux as a platform for games anymore. They just do windows and expect Proton to work, perhaps doing a quick test of that. It makes more sense this way.

I was talking about the native games…
I still have hope that with SteamOS growing popularity, studios will publish native version more and more. I also hope that native apple metal build will become the norm since Apple Vision plateform will entice gamers too. Basically, there is hope regarding multi platform gaming dev to be back on tracks.