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    2021202220232024 is the year of the Linux desktop

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      When looking at the Steam Linux breakdown, the SteamOS Holo that powers the Steam Deck is now accounting for around 42% of all Linux gamers on Steam.

      While the increase is great, it - sadly - doesn’t look like it.

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    Even though this is mostly because of the Steam Deck, it’s still great news. More people get to try out Linux and find out how good the support for gaming on Linux is nowadays. Some may even feel compelled to switch to it on their main machine, especially after Microsoft drops Windows 10 support and forces everyone to upgrade to Windows 11 (which, while certainly better now, still feels like a downgrade IMO).

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    I’m not seeing anyone comment on the last paragraph of the article, so I’ll paste it here.

    With the SteamOS / Steam Deck monthly numbers not showing any magnificent gains, I am curious over this 0.5% increase for Linux gaming overall and whether it’s genuine.

    The likely explanation is when looking at the demographics and seeing Steam by Chinese users dropping 3.4% while the English usage picked up by 3.4%. Chinese gamers and reporting differences there have previously vastly swayed Steam statistics in prior months.

    So this might just be a maths artifact.

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        All they said for sure was they sold out their first two production runs which were based on pre-order numbers, and that was over 1mil at the time they said that. Found this quote though:

        “According to Omdia, the Steam Deck sold an estimated 1.62 million units in 2022, and is on track to sell about 1.85 million units throughout 2023. This would push total Steam Deck unit sales to 3.47 million by the end of 2023.”

        So if true, they blew through those first units super fast, and then ramped production again. I’m sure they sold a ton last month when t was 20% off for Summer Sale as well.

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    I made the switch fully recently. It’s honestly nicer overall for sure. Glad to see things picking up. The more that move over, the more support Linux will get.

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    Just installed Pop OS a few days ago and already got the survey, so I guess I’m helping?

    That said, gaming on Linux is still a bit too fiddly to set up for your average person. Out of the 6 games I played so far, I had to tinker with 3 of them to get them running, despite having none of these problems on a Steam Deck. Though the common theme seems to be non-Steam launchers (Ubisoft Connect, Riot Games and FFXIV) causing them.

    For non-gaming purposes (browsing, programming, multimedia) on the other hand it’s been smooth sailing.

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          I come to the comments so I don’t have to read the article as well.

          Then I’ll add extra comments using only the information in the comments section.

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          It’s also the thumbnail for the link. I don’t know what the input is for other apps but on sync I could long press it to hover the image with the breakdown and one of the others I used just makes the previews fit to begin with.

          But since I’m such a great servant to random people, deck: as in title, arch Linux and Ubuntu: 0.1 and change, Manjaro and mint(? I already forgot): 0.0something … I have 256kb of memory and most of it is reserved by bloatware.

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    I’m happy for the growth— but are we sure this isn’t just from the increased counts due to the steam deck?

    I read further; “When looking at the Steam Linux breakdown, the SteamOS Holo that powers the Steam Deck is now accounting for around 42% of all Linux gamers on Steam. “

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    Being higher than apple, a platform where gaming is virtually not even supported, isn’t what I’d be celebrating 😂 I’m guessing this is almost entirely down to the steam deck?

    Valve need to get serious and release a full on game console that runs SteamOS. That’s the only way Linux gaming is going to take off. A console that’s basically just a pc with a 3060 level gpu or so and running steam big picture mode, or whatever the steam deck runs, is the only way.