The Linux platform’s usage rate on Steam in July was nearly 2%, surpassing macOS’s market share for the first time

According to news from this site on August 2, the Steam platform has currently released client system survey data for July 2023, which shows that Linux game market share exceeds Apple macOS.

This site found from the latest data provided by V agency that the proportion of users using Linux system reached 1.96%, an increase of 0.52% year-on-year in June, surpassing Apple macOS (1.84%) for the first time.

The significant growth of Linux market share is mainly attributed to Valve’s Steam Deck game console. The following is the data of the top five Linux platform rankings

• Steam Deck's operating system "SteamOS Holo" ranks first in market share, currently accounting for 42.07%, an increase of 2.74% from last month

• Arch Linux's market share The market share of Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS was 7.38%, ranking third in the rankings, with a decrease of 0.39% from the previous month. A decrease of 0.49% from the previous month

• Freedesktop.org
SDK 22.08 ranked fourth, accounting for 5.99%, a decrease of 0.03% from the previous month;

• Manjaro Linux ranks fifth in the ranking, accounting for 4.29%, a decrease of 0.08% from last month

▲ Picture source Steam platform statistics Currently, V Club is vigorously developing the Linux game field, and at the same time it has also led a number of subsidiary factories to "create" games Handheld consoles, and although Apple has frequently emphasized that Macs under the ARM platform "can play all kinds of games", but the current macOS games are more limited to Apple's App Store and are not included in Steam measurement

, so it is not surprising that Steam’s current Linux market share surpasses Apple’s macOS.

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