Steam Linux Marketshare Surges To Nearly 2% In November

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Steam Linux Marketshare Surges To Nearly 2% In November

Steam on Linux enjoyed a various nice boost in popularity during the course of November at least as it concerns Valve's Steam Survey...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Linux-November-2023

[HEL88]

1.91% including 43% is Steam Deck.

1.91 *(1-0.43) = 1.088

So, 1.088% is Linux desktop, laptop etc. An impressive achievement after 10 years of presence on Steam and a supposedly better system.

[Daktyl198]

1.91% including 43% is Steam Deck.

1.91 *(1-0.43) = 1.088

So, 1.088% is Linux desktop, laptop etc. An impressive achievement after 10 years of presence on Steam and a supposedly better system.

Wow, you definitely failed your statistics class. 2% is actually fairly impressive, yes. It's roughly 2.4 million people actively using steam on Linux every month.

[Volta]

It seems winboy can't stand Linux wipes the floor with his toy OS when comes to performance and security. He forgot miserable macOS, but I don't expect too much.

[HEL88]

Wow, you definitely failed your statistics class. 2% is actually fairly impressive, yes. It's roughly 2.4 million people actively using steam on Linux every month.

If you use the words 'fairly impressive' for 2.4 million, what would you use for 115 million?

2.4 is very little. If all Linux users bought the AAA game, the sales result would be considered a complete failure.

2% of the market after 10 years is a poor result, not an impressive one.

[HEL88]

It seems winboy can't stand Linux wipes the floor with his toy OS when comes to performance and security. He forgot miserable macOS, but I don't expect too much.

It just amazes me how the best desktop system (the most trouble-free, with the best software, the fastest and safest, plus you can have it for FREE) that is Linux has such a hard time in the desktop market and is so slow to conquer it. Because from what I remember it used to have 2% on Steam, but it fell.

My theory is that Linux is shining so strong that people are going blind at the sight of it.

[Setif]

Something wrong either with Steam survey or chinese market. They should fix these fluctuations.

[pracedru]

This is good news. The question is if Valve can keep it up. The investment into Linux as a gaming platform must have been expensive. Do these figures and the projections justify the continued investment?

[ezst036]

This is likely mostly the Steam Deck effect, however, there are natural reasons why it is better to choose Linux for gaming.

Computer Base recently ran some tests and found that Linux is faster (just barely) than Windows for gaming.

https://www.computerbase.de/2023-12/welche-linux-distribution-zum-spielen/2/

[bachchain]

Oh, so we're actually believing the data this time. I guess it's only "questionable" when the number goes down.