After the rather exciting development in the last Steam Hardware & Software Survey where Linux users overtook macOS for the first time, the latest survey shows Linux continues to be above macOS but with the numbers dipping down.
The latest results for August 2023:
Windows 96.61% ( change of +0.40)
Linux 1.82% (change of -0.14)
OSX 1.57% (change of -0.27)
When switching over to the Linux-only data here’s the most popular distributions for gaming on Steam:
- SteamOS Holo 64 bit 44.18% (+2.11%)
- “Arch Linux” 64 bit 7.68% (-0.26%)
- Freedesktop.org SDK 22.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 6.03% (+0.04%)
- Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS 64 bit 4.10% (-3.28%)
- Manjaro Linux 64 bit 3.99% (-0.30%)
- Linux Mint 21.2 64 bit 3.41% (+3.41%)
- Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS 64 bit 2.93% (-0.04%)
- Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS 64 bit 2.91% (+2.91%)
- Other 24.78% (-0.74%)
So we continue to see that the Steam Deck with SteamOS is what’s really pushing Linux gaming right now with it growing again this month compared to other distributions.
As usual the trends can be seen on Gaming Linux’s Steam Tracker.
