Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark

magic_lobster_party@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• damnedfurry@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think it will continue to rise. People are updating their rigs all the time. Whenever they update their rig they’ll have to ask themselves whether they want to continue with Windows on their new rig, or try with something new.

  The vast majority of this increase is from people playing on Steam Decks, which run on Linux, not from people switching to Linux on their PCs.

  If it continues to rise, this is the reason. The general public is less and less into using a desktop at all as time goes on, much less running, and much less changing to, an extremely niche operating system on one.

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  • BigPotato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Actually, the raw number percentage shows that the increase is due to Mint, Ubuntu, and Bazzite. Maybe people are installing Bazzite on their Deck but likely not the other two.

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    • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Hannah Montana Linux support for Steam Deck when?

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      • jlow@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Not too soon(of you wanna run it in bare metal):

        xda-developers.com/i-tried-hannah-montana-linux-i…

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    • TJDetweiler@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I switched from Windows to Bazzite on my main rig 2 weeks ago. Likely won’t go back to Windows for gaming as I’ve had pretty much no issues with Bazzite.

      I did also get a Steam deck recently, so anecdotally, both above answers are right.

      Insert “I’m doing my part” meme

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    • atmorous@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I want to say that I’ve been helping people get onto Mint and Bazzite. Going to pat myself on the back for contributing what little I can to grow this awesome community

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  • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The portion of people playing on SteamOS is steadily decreasing, which means new Linux users are on SteamOS to a lesser extent.

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  • CountVon@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The vast majority of this increase is from people playing on Steam Decks

    I believe this is incorrect. The Steam survey break down GPUs by description and the Deck’s GPU appears in the results as “AMD Vangogh”, which only accounts for 0.39% of respondents. That implies that the vast majority of survey respondents using Linux are actually on PC, not the Deck.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      the Deck’s GPU appears in the results as “AMD Vangogh”

      I bet it’s EXCELLENT at rendering sunflowers!

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      • overworkedandundersane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Not so good at ears, though.

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  • turdas@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s not true. You can see on Steam Hardware Survey what OS people are running, and SteamOS only makes up 27% of Linux users on Steam, so the vast majority are on regular PCs.

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    • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Certainly interesting to look at the fastest-growing distros: Ubuntu (the well-known, popular option), Bazzite (the gaming-marketed one), Freedesktop (someone else can answer this for me), and CachyOS (the side-gaming one? Not quite a gaming OS but very good at it)

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      • turdas@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        “Freedesktop SDK” means the user is running Steam via Flatpak. They could be on any distro.

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    • damnedfurry@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The vast majority of the increase, is what I said. In other words, I’m saying it wouldn’t be nearly at the 3% mark without those users, and with over a quarter of all Linux users coming from the Steam Deck userbase, that is, in fact, true.

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      • turdas@suppo.fi ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Without the Steam Deck there’d be 27% fewer Linux users. So while that would indeed mean Linux wouldn’t yet be 3% of the total Steam userbase, I think you will find that 27% is not the majority.

        GamingOnLinux aggregates this data in a nicer way and as you can see there, the total Linux market share has gone from <1% five years ago to the 3% it is now. If that increase was mainly thanks to the Steam Deck, it would have to make up more like 75% of the Linux userbase rather than only 27%.

        Instead, as others have pointed out, SteamOS’s share has actually gone down rather than up, which is a natural consequence of the Steam Deck being relatively old now so fewer are being sold.

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    • richardwallass@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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      • Dojan@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        They said Steam OS, not Steam Deck.

        If you click on “Linux Version” it expands into a list. Steam OS Holo is the largest portion, but not the majority portion. Image

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      • turdas@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        “SteamOS Holo” 64 bit is the Steam Deck.

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  • KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nope, handhelds can be eval in separately from operating systems

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• BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah, for me personally, I’ve got one or two devices that see irregular use that are linux now, but my main rig is still windows and will continue to be so, since I have a number of friends on xbox that I can get more cross play for via gamepass But since I’m currently boycotting microsoft, and don’t know how much longer friends will stick with xbox given their general market decline, and given all the stability issues with win11 lately due to an increase of AI code usage, and all the everything… It might be a matter of time

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