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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

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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 50 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's probably me, I've been playing a non-steam installed version of KSP for a month or so.

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 months ago

Damnit Derek!

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 7 points 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.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 8 points 2 months ago

Might be me, I have mostly been emulating for the past month. And that only goes through the steam client on the deck

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] match@pawb.social 7 points 2 months ago

honestly kinda surprised that China doesn't have its own common OS

[–] match@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago

that's me I took a break from space station 14 🙂‍↕️

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 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.

[–] hopefull_cottonball@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

That Might be me, but it also might not.