Steam Linux Use Dips For January 2025 Amid Odd Survey Numbers
www.phoronix.com

Article has some observation about the new statistics provided by Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam.

The Steam on Linux marketshare ended 2024 with a 2.29% against Windows at 96.1% and macOS at 1.61%. The Steam Survey numbers for January were posted this evening and they show a sizable dip for the Linux gaming use but there are also other odd discrepancies with the updated monthly figures.

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Where things get odd though is that the January results show the English language use dropping by 8.17% down to 33.97%… Most other languages dropping too and no explanation where the 8%+ usage went from the English use.

  • Obelix@feddit.orgEnglish
    4·
    8 hours ago

    Since every language seems to be dropping percentage-wise: What is the market Steam is growing so much in? India?

    • Danitos@reddthat.com
      2·
      4 hours ago

      The last time (some 7 months ago) something like happened it ended up being that the Steam survey had a bug that oversampled Chinesse machines. Maybe something similar happened.

  • TheRealCharlesEames@lemm.eeEnglish
    42·
    19 hours ago

    My bad, both my Linux pcs on different distros black screened after updating so I had to go back to using windows.

    • kusivittula@sopuli.xyz
      4·
      13 hours ago

      nvidia user? there’s been issues between nvidia drivers and kernel 6.12, i experienced that too. fixed by going back to an older kernel.

    • dicksteele@lemm.eeEnglish
      31·
      12 hours ago

      Try fedora. More stability than any other os I’ve ever tried. Have had it running on all my machines for maybe 6 years now and not one issue, including with gaming (csgo/cs2 for 5k+ hours).

    • thingsiplay@beehaw.orgOP
      2·
      19 hours ago

      That usually don’t happen. Hopefully you did not lose any personal data. What distributions were you using? I wonder what happened there, that both of your different distributions had a black screen after an update.

      • TheRealCharlesEames@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        19 hours ago

        First bazzite then Ubuntu 3 months later. Tried troubleshooting but gave up and started over. I don’t bother backing up my steam machines, but I appreciate the concern.

        • hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz
          22·
          12 hours ago

          I don’t understand the hype with Bazzite. I mean, any linux is better than windows and Bazzite is just linux with bloat and a bad one at that.

          my experience with Bazzite: install, use LACT to attemp a small overclock, crash, reboot, lots of packagers missing from distro, uninstall, went back to vanilla Arch.

          immutable distros are just a hype and nothing more.

            • N.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              1·
              41 minutes ago

              You can layer packages using rpm-ostree install $pkgname. It uses fedora repos. You can also (preferably) use a distrobox or toolbox container with a non-atomic distro and then install the desired package. Generally better to avoid layering packages but it works fine in my experience.