Phoronix studies on Valve’s “Steam Survey” outcomes for December 2024, saying the brand new numbers “mirror a pleasant upward pattern for the Linux gaming statistics and a excessive level in current occasions.”
In November the Steam Survey mirrored a 2.03% marketshare for Linux… Roughly inline with what we’ve got been seeing for Linux proper at across the 2% threshold. With the just-published December survey numbers, there’s a 0.29% enhance to 2.29%…! When trying on the Linux numbers, SteamOS Holo accounts for round 36% of all Linux avid gamers… SteamOS Holo being the working system of the Steam Deck and starting to seem on different units as effectively… Pushed largely by the Steam Deck counting on a customized AMD SoC/APU and AMD being well-liked with Linux avid gamers/lovers for his or her open-source driver assist, AMD CPU use on Linux instructions a 73.6% marketshare.
The truth is, December “noticed AMD attain one other record-high share amongst individuals of Valve’s survey,” in response to TechSpot — “up 3.02% final month, taking its complete to 38.7% as Intel fell barely to 63.4%…”
Elsewhere, Home windows 11 is now comfortably the most well-liked OS within the survey. It pulled forward one other 2% to an virtually 55% share in December as Home windows 10 dropped to 42.3%… Nevertheless, it is a totally different story when taking a look at world customers: Home windows 10’s share has elevated two months in a row to 62.7% whereas Home windows 11 has declined to 34.1%.
Rounding up the remainder of the survey, 16GB of RAM stays the most well-liked quantity of system RAM nevertheless it’s lead is declining as second-place 32GB grows; a pattern that’s mirrored within the VRAM class…
Phoronix provides that the Home windows p.c “pulled again by 0.51% to 96.1% whereas Apple macOS additionally gained 0.22% going as much as a 1.61% marketshare.”