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@gamingonlinux After having overtaken macOS in July, Linux is still above macOS on Steam in August 
- https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam
- https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/
It does make a lot of sense: most games just work great.
Well, except those with ring-0 anticheat, which I wouldn't ever want to play on any OS anyways.
Linux still above macOS on Steam in September, consistently for 3 months in a row !
See how clearly it anticorrelates with the number of Chinese users; whenever the Chinese/English user ratio goes up, it goes down. Makes sense.
The ratio of Chinese Steam users actually reached that of English Steam users in September. If it continues to grow that steadily, we can expect a continued decrease in relative Linux usage.
That won't imply in any way that the Linux gaming adoption is dropping though or that people would be moving back to Windows of course – just that you are changing your overall population.
[Update] Linux above macOS on Steam: this has systematically remained the case every month for the last 6 months ! Right?!
- https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam
- https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/
The anti-correlation with the number of polled Chinese Steam users (massively running Windows) remains, as expected.
Fast forward a few months
Lovely to see the current status of #Linux gaming on #Steam, from @gamingonlinux
It's steadily growing, now at 2.32%; gaming on macOS is at 1.47%.
NB: the drops in March and October 2023 are correlated with two isolated sharp peaks in the proportion of Chinese users in the sample.
Interesting: the proportion of #Steam Chinese users itself is slowly increasing. They are much less likely to use Linux than non-Chinese users, so this makes the clear overall increase in #Linux adoption for gaming even more impressive.
Here is another plot from @gamingonlinux, this time also showing the percentage of Linux users when restricting to English-only.
TL;DR: 
