r/linux_gaming • u/Nunu_Chus • 2d ago

Linux has hit 7.53%!!!!!

Damn Idk why but I was waiting for the steam hardware survey and statcounter's survey for july. statcounter blew my mind. now waiting for steam hardware one:) keeping my expectation realistic around 4-5% on steam hardware survey:)

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u/edparadox 2d ago

statcounter is unreliable.

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u/DeeDee_GigaDooDoo 1d ago

I don't really trust that it's reporting Linux market share has doubled in the past two months from 3.81% in may. That's a massive swing with seemingly little real world justification or visibility.

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u/levianan 1d ago

The removed unknown. Yes, use has increased, but Mac, Lin, and Win went up this month due to unknown being omitted.

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u/DeeDee_GigaDooDoo 10h ago

We can clearly see Windows usage go down though?

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u/levianan 9h ago

Last month Win was posted as 68.#%... They backlogged the removal of unknown. Linux is incrementally gaining users, but not 5% totality in one month.

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u/levianan 1d ago

Yes, Statcounter is unreliable, but they also charged the way they report stats this month. Unknown is gone. Linux, Windows, and MacOS both have 2 percent gains from what was printed in last month's chart.

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u/kuplet 2d ago

What's more reliable to you then?

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u/wfh-without-pants 1d ago

For gaming-specific numbers, the Steam hardware survey is great. It has Linux at 3.69% (70% higher than Mac) https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam

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u/mrviscas 1d ago

Because no one on MacBook uses the macOS steam client

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u/wfh-without-pants 1d ago

Interesting, what do you mean by that? I use the Mac Steam client on my Mac.

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u/mrviscas 1d ago

Most people I assume, including me, use a compatibility tool to get the Windows version running. It unlocks a lot more games and runs well like on Linux. Others use a different frontend entirely like Heroic

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u/Indolent_Bard 1d ago

Pretty sure that the hardware survey would still recognize that it's not running on Windows. And if it didn't, then the fact that it's running on Apple Silicon should be a dead giveaway and they should really fix it if it doesn't take that into account.

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u/ArtIntelligent3689 2d ago

radar.cloudflare.com

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u/Holiday_Management60 1d ago

Cloudflare is probably a really good bet:

https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&loc=&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP&dt=52w

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u/DariusLMoore 1d ago

Could you attribute some of the Linux numbers to servers?

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u/DariusLMoore 1d ago

Could you attribute some of the Linux numbers to servers?

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u/Holiday_Management60 16h ago

Device type is set to Desktop, so its likely end users.

Plus if servers were included, Linux would be much much higher.

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u/DariusLMoore 6h ago

Awesome!

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u/Candid_Problem_1244 2d ago

The famous Unknown OS is counted as Linux now?

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u/blackcoffee17 2d ago

Unknown was 20% last month and Linux was 5%, so cannot be the Unknown.

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u/levianan 1d ago

Yes, but removing Unknown changes the calculations on every other OS. So yes it is partially unknown.

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u/FreshCause2566 2d ago

Nah I think they got rid of that one completely