Steam Linux market share soared to nearly 2% in November, with a large influx of Chinese players

Steam popularity on Linux saw mixed gains in November, at least according to Valve's Steam survey. Steam survey results in October showed that market share fell by 0.24% to 1.39%; in September it fell by 0.19% to 1.63%; in August it fell by 0.14% to 1.84%. Prior to this, Steam's market share on Linux had risen several times, reaching 1.96% in July, before declining in the following months.

The November results released tonight show that market share rose by 0.52% to 1.91%...while still not at July's highs, it has reversed the trend of Linux percentage declines.

In the months since Linux's market share has declined, Windows 10 has seen significant increases in usage and Chinese language support, both indicators of an influx of Chinese users. In November, this trend reversed: the usage rate of Windows 1064-bit dropped by 12.95%, and the usage rate of Windows 1164-bit increased by 11.5%... The number of Simplified Chinese users decreased by nearly 20% in November.

Drilling down into pure Linux data shows that about 43% of Linux players use Valve's SteamOS.

LinuxGPU data confirms that 43% of SteamOS usage does come from ValveSteamDeck usage. Last month, Valve also launched the exciting SteamDeck OLED model.

Linux players on Steam mainly use AMD CPUs with a market share of 70%, while Intel CPUs have a market share of only 30%.

The full text of Steam's November survey results can be found on SteamPowered.com. To sum up, Linux usage has rebounded to around 2% due to the influx of Chinese players or Valve's change in survey behavior.