The ratio of Chinese Steam users actually reached that of English Steam users in September. If it continues to grow that steadily, we can expect a continued decrease in relative Linux usage.
That won't imply in any way that the Linux gaming adoption is dropping though or that people would be moving back to Windows of course – just that you are changing your overall population.
@gamingonlinux Gotta look forward to the new excuses for not supporting Linux by game devs. They always supported MacOS. And claimed Linux share was too low. Now they support MacOS and Linux has a higher share.
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It might also be related to it being summer more people being outside and on the go.
There are less people gaming on a Desktop PC in Summer. I think Linux bigger market share in the Steam Survey often correlated with summer.( As well as certain events like the release of proton or the steam deck).
@gamingonlinux Sometimes I find myself thinking how much bigger the number of users on Linux would be if people actively participated in hardware survey. It doesn't enter my head that there are more active "Steam Decks" than Linux desktops with Steam installed.
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Everyone please do not take these numbers seriously. Valve owns the website, the data is from Valve, it’s only Valve collecting your data.
This is the same thing as Elon making up numbers because it’s only coming from Elon’s website. STOP THE Lies.
And @gamingonlinux you need to report the source of the data, the source is only in Valve corp, only Valve. We can not confirm anything else but Valve claims such numbers exist.
@gamingonlinux The clickbait article you copy isn't helping with your case nor did you say anything about data it collected. Let me reminder that i also had to do this too when Steam Deck sale went up with again only Valve being the only source.
Don't be like those newspapers that just copy cats their way and links to the source that links to one company.
@gamingonlinux I've gotten almost all my friends to get steam decks. Between the bragging I can game in my bed and actually seeing it in action everyone I know thinks about getting one now.
@gamingonlinux Now if only they could fix steamwebhelper so that it doesn't chew 100% cpu in the background and prevent Steam from opening random windows WHILE I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF A FREAKIN' GAME.
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