Steam is a massive worldwide market, and the Steam Deck isn't offered everywhere. Chinese users for example have to import it, so not many are used there.

Well maybe Linux most likely to hit ~7% global OS market share and total 5%+ Steam Survey user share next 10 years (its just prediction)

Deck sold well but there are billions of Steam users.

thought more than 2%

What confuses me is a survey earlier this year was 2.32%, so why the actual regression?

I'd have expected it to go up with more time to sell steam decks and whatnot, not regress by 15%.

I got the hardware survey on my Windows PC, but not on my Steamdeck. So I wonder if there is only 1 survey per user, and most people don't use a steamdeck exclusively?

I could swear it was higher earlier this year/last year but looking at the survey results, Linux climbed to 2% this survey. I think maybe that half remembered headline was something like "Linux is higher than MacOS at 1.5% market share" or something like that instead?

Year 👏 of 👏 the 👏 Linux 👏 Desktop!

Random users are asked each month. If you get chosen you'll get a popup in the Steam client asking if you'd like to participate.

Well I finally move to a full time Linux desktop on my PC this year

Valve needs to enable Proton by default.

I'm not really a tech guy at all and I let these nerds talk me into trying Linux Mint, I haven't bothered with Windows 10 for several months now. There was some frustrating troubleshooting at first but once the settings are tweaked how you like them, the updates don't negate your tweaks like with Microsoft. I'm sure there's a lot of functionality I'm not maximizing but I don't feel the need to. I got my productivity stuff figured out, my game stuff figured out, the last thing I really need to get sorted is why my printer is being such a wiener but I use it so sparingly that there's not much motivation to mess with that. I did dual boot for a while so I wouldn't feel overwhelmingly stupid when it came to Linux, so I was able to familiarize myself with the new setup at my pace and that helped quite a bit I think. No harm in going that route, then you can see what happens with Warzone before fully taking the plunge

If it’s within your budget, grab a Steam Deck and use it in docked Desktop mode. It’s a pretty great introduction into Linux IMO, especially due to the fact that Valve themselves are maintaining the OS, and since it’s running on a fixed hardware platform - most online solutions should be applicable to any problems you may encounter.

Worst case, you don’t like it you can always eBay it off to recoup most of your costs?

Sounds like you're willing to forgive a mountain of bullshit for windows but nothing for a non corporate os

Just randomly wondering, which distro did you use on what hardware?