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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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THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #13: SLOBOL

SLOBOL is best known for the speed, or lack of it, of its compiler.
Although many compilers allow you to take a coffee break while they
compile, SLOBOL compilers allow you to travel to Bolivia to pick the
coffee. Forty-three programmers are known to have died of boredom
sitting at their terminals while waiting for a SLOBOL program to
compile. Weary SLOBOL programmers often turn to a related (but
infinitely faster) language, COCAINE.