Steam Hardware and Software Survey: August 2022

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Worth noting: "SteamOS Holo" 64 bit (Steam Deck) is now the most popular Linux distribution represented in this survey (13.69% of total Linux users use SteamOS Holo). Linux users in general represents 1.27% of the total user base who answered the survey.

Thanks I was just going to ask about this. I hadn't realized the Steam Deck was that popular, or this might be too early to tell.

By doing some napkin math, it seems at least 200K Steam Decks have come online since launch (one of which is mine!). Production also has ramped up just last week or so, so next month we'll see it even more I think.

Biggest change will happen around Christmas is my guess. If it manages to overtake macOS already at that point remains to be seen, but unless they happen to get supply chain issues, I wouldn't be surprised it would happen already.

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