New Steam Report showsAfter a small stagnation the share of Linux users on the gaming platform continues to increase little by little and has reached another maximum. Of course Windows dominates, but the Linux user community is happy to see any positive change, even in hundredths of a percent. Thus, the share of Linux users on Steam has increased to 1.23% in July which is 0.05% more than the month before, reports Phoronix. Seemingly a small increase, but on the scale of the Steam platform, a value of 0.05% could mean that Linux-based operating systems were used by millions of users in July, at the beginning of the year the platform installed record The record for the number of simultaneously active players is 27942036.
Besides the overall growth of Linux-based operating systems, the increase of Linux users on Steam can be attributed to several factors. First of all, Valve continues to successfully troubleshoot the supply chain and ramp up production of the Steam Deck handheld gaming computers, which the company has recently reportedthat it will be able to ship all currently reserved devices to customers this year. Secondly, the compatibility layer of Proton, the original Wine and other projects to run Windows games on Linux continue to improve. Recently the developers of the online RPG shooter Outriders have solved the Easy Anti-Cheat issues on Linux and the game has been given the status of. Steam Deck “Can Play”, also the recent Proton update allows to play Halo Infinite.