Steam decks have been out for years now, and even though they sold millions of copies they’re not the majority of Linux machines, you can check the GPU AMD Custom GPU 0405 on the GPU field since that’s the steam deck one, it’s at 0.82% and had a 0.23% increase this month. So some of the increase in Linux came from it (around half), but there’s still a lot of new Linux PC users.
Also it’s worth mentioning that every time that the Linux share has gone down it coincides with a spike in Chinese language usage.
I was digging around on the steam hardware survey and it does list steam deck separately if you tell the hardware survey to only show you Linux, and it is ~5.5x more popular that arch, and also reports that arch and Ubuntu are similar, leading me to believe the steam deck is fully excluded from the default combined view.
If you take that x5.5 and use it to extrapolate, steam decks should have about 0.82% market share
Steam decks have been out for years now, and even though they sold millions of copies they’re not the majority of Linux machines, you can check the GPU
AMD Custom GPU 0405on the GPU field since that’s the steam deck one, it’s at 0.82% and had a 0.23% increase this month. So some of the increase in Linux came from it (around half), but there’s still a lot of new Linux PC users.Also it’s worth mentioning that every time that the Linux share has gone down it coincides with a spike in Chinese language usage.
I was digging around on the steam hardware survey and it does list steam deck separately if you tell the hardware survey to only show you Linux, and it is ~5.5x more popular that arch, and also reports that arch and Ubuntu are similar, leading me to believe the steam deck is fully excluded from the default combined view.
If you take that x5.5 and use it to extrapolate, steam decks should have about 0.82% market share
Which is exactly the same the GPU numbers show.