Back in May the Steam on Linux marketshare returned to passing the 2% threshold and remained above 2% through July. But the August 2024 survey results are out this evening and point to a drop for Linux. The August 2024 numbers show a 0.16% drop for Linux gamers, landing at a 1.92% marketshare. Windows meanwhile rose to 96.78% and macOS dropped a tiny bit to 1.3%.

As we have seen in months past when Linux takes a sizable dip, it’s correlated to a rise in the Simplified Chinese use. In August the Simplified Chinese use further grew and helping out Windows at the cost to the Linux percentage.

Steam Hardware & Software Survey: August 2024

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
    27·
    2 months ago

    Probably me. Haven’t had too much time to play games recently. But I managed to play btd6 last week, hopefully that helped.

    • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
      8·
      2 months ago

      Same. I was playing one of those addicive clicker games, but finished it in mid-August and have barely had time to play since then. Only other things I’ve played are non-Steam games.

  • SgtLuno@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 months ago

    I wonder if this also coincides with back-to-school with students getting their new laptops during the summer running Windows, as well as class software requirements requiring Windows. Lots of those students are definitely loading up steam on their laptop for the first time, adding more windows players, but not lowering the number of Linux players. Also everyone gets it - windows bad, Linux and gnu alternatives good, but for uni courses it’s best to save the headache and just run windows for the software that needs it.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    5·
    2 months ago

    Couldn’t have been me, I purged the last Windows machine from our household last week and the first thing my wife wanted to have installed was Steam.

  • Jayjader@jlai.luEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    As we have seen in months past when Linux takes a sizable dip, it’s correlated to a rise in the Simplified Chinese use. In August the Simplified Chinese use further grew and helping out Windows at the cost to the Linux percentage.

    So, the solution is clear: get all Simplified Chinese users to switch from Windows to Linux :D