Steam On Linux(1.96%) Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS(1.84%)
Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Stats-July-2023
Just tried Steam for Mac the other day, and there is a very good reason why it's so low. Modern macs don't even let you play games made for Mac!! Since 32-bit support was dropped, you pretty much can't play any Source games like HL2 or Gmod.
Yeah, most of my games don't work on macOS (I think ~1/4 do?), and most of my games do work on Linux (>3/4). So I don't use my Mac (work computer, my boss is cool with it) for gaming and instead use Linux.
Oh I know. I have a linux laptop that I use for gaming. I'm just going to a party where we plan to play gmod and some of the others don't have laptops so I thought I'd see if my Mac would be suitable. It wasn't.
I'm one of these stats, I switched to Linux as a daily driver on my gaming setup a few months ago. I kept the windows drive installed in the box, but it's way more lonely than I thought it would be.
The Steam Deck is the biggest contributor to this number. According to the article, 42% of Linux users on Steam are Deck users.
According to these new numbers from Valve, the Linux customer base is up to 1.96%, or a 0.52% jump over June! That's a huge jump with normally just moving 0.1% or so in either direction most months...
so I assume it was at 1.44% in June, which means... like a 35% increase?
There was a pretty big dip a 1 or 2 months ago, so I would just classify this as being margin of error, especially with such small percentages
I hate to say it, but the only thing that can explain this kind of sudden jump is error in data.