The Steam Hardware & Software Survey is out for October 2024, and the Linux user share has gone back up again to exactly 2%.
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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.

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Yep! And it’s per account. Both of my Linux machines are in this months data!

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Weird that it’d be random when they could just ask every user. Would give a more accurate breakdown on certain categories.

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That might bias the results towards gaming cafes and people building test machines. Cases where an account is used but a single snapshot doesn’t necessarily reflect what they normally use or that would capture the same machine multiple times.

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