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Steam Survey Results For November 2024: Linux Gaming Marketshare Slightly Higher

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During October [1]the Steam Linux marketshare crawled back up to 2.0% while overnight Valve published the Steam Survey results for November 2024.

For November, the Linux gaming marketshare nudged up to 2.03%, a 0.03% increase over October. macOS was up by 0.02% to 1.41% and Windows fell by 0.05% to 96.56%.

For Linux distributions, Valve's Arch-based SteamOS Holo remains most widely used with 36.6% marketshare among Linux gamers.

AMD CPU use among Linux gamers is at around 69%, driven in large part by the Steam Deck making use of a custom AMD SoC.

All the November 2024 Steam Survey results in full via [2]SteamPowered.com .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-October-2024-Numbers

[2] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam?platform=combined


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Increased Electricity Consumption Blamed on Linux

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The US Department of Energy claims Linux is partially
responsible for the increased demand for electricity during the past year.
Electricity use was up 2.5% from January to September of 1998 compared with
the same period in 1997. "While some of the increase can be attributed to
higher temperatures over the summer," one Department bureaucrat explained,
"Linux is certainly a contributor to the increased demand for power."

When asked for clarification, the bureaucrat responded, "In the past, most
PCs have been turned off when not in use. Linux users, on the other hand,
usually don't turn off their computers. They leave them on, hoping to
increase their uptime to impress their friends. And since Linux rarely
crashes the entire system, those computers stay on for weeks, months, even
years at a time. With Linux use continuing to grow, we expect demand for
electricity to increase steadily over the next several years."

In response to the news, several utility companies have announced plans to
give away free Linux CDs to paying customers who request them. One anonymous
executive said, "The more people who use Linux, the more power they consume.
The more electricity they use, the more money we make. It's a win-win
combination." Yesterday Linus Torvalds was nominated as a candidate for the
Assocation of American Utility Companies Person of the Year.