We don’t usually comment directly on the Steam Hardware Survey every month, not unless it’s something real interesting and this is the second month where it is because we’re still officially above 1%! It was actually quite big news last month because it’s the highest we’ve seen in many years.
The trend appears to be continuing, with the August numbers up from Valve which show Linux now at 1.02%. You can see a bit of history over on our dedicated Steam Tracker.
Using the latest months recorded share that’s an estimated 1,228,080 “monthly active” Linux users on Steam, based on the last data Valve gave from January 2021. Going by the data that Steam provide we can see a breakdown of the most popular Linux distributions (when filtered to just Linux) on Steam right now as these:
- Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS 64 bit – 15.77%
- Manjaro Linux 64 bit – 12.72%
- Arch Linux 64 bit – 11.14%
- Pop!_OS 21.04 64 bit – 7.36%
- Ubuntu 21.04 64 bit – 6.60%
- Linux Mint 20.2 64 bit 5.50%
You can also see that Steam Flatpak shows up being used by 5.58% of Linux/Steam users.
Want to see what systems our readers are running? Check out our statistics page.
We expect the hype around the Steam Deck and Proton getting some bigger mentions from Valve has helped. Since the Steam Deck is a Linux machine with SteamOS 3 being based on Arch Linux, it’s not overly surprising to see a bump in people trying Linux out before the release.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
