Steam On Linux Percentage Dips Further In September, AMD Powers 70% Of Linux Gamers

After Steam on Linux usage topped to nearly 2% in July with the phenomenal success of the Steam Deck and with greater marketshare than Apple macOS, in August it took a dip and now the September numbers are out and points to a second consecutive month of the Linux percentage receding.

The September 2023 numbers for the Steam Survey were published a few minutes ago and put Linux at a 1.63% marketshare, a 0.19% dip compared to the month prior. Granted, on an absolute basis the Steam on Linux marketshare may be doing well depending upon the month-over-month growth rate of Steam overall... The September numbers meanwhile show macOS losing another 0.14% and now down to 1.43% while Microsoft Windows has a dominant 96.9% marketshare.

When pulling up the Linux specific numbers, the Steam survey shows SteamOS Holo -- the OS powering the Steam Deck -- as losing 1.14% marketshare to Arch Linux gaining 0.4%, Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS ticking up by 3.58%, etc. As for why the Linux percent receded, the Steam Simplified Chinese use picked up by another 5% this past month that tends to correlate more with Windows users. It also wasn't until the end of September that Valve released Counter-Strike 2 and provided a native Linux build for gamers interested in CS2.

Further confirming a decrease in the Steam Deck percentage of Linux gamers is AMD Van Gogh as the most popular for Linux gamers pulling back by 1.16%. But the Van Gogh APU still holds a strong 43% marketshare among Linux gamers.

On a CPU basis, Steam Linux gamers still are 70% with AMD processors to Intel with 30%, driven in large part by Steam Deck owners.

Those wishing to comb through all of the September 2023 Steam Survey numbers can find the latest data at SteamPowered.com.