Linux has already passed the era when people used to avoid Linux only because gaming consoles and heavy-weight graphical games were not supported on traditional Linux systems. But, in recent years, starting from 2000 to now, the market share of Linux in the gaming industry has increased significantly. Well, it’s not a boom, but it’s rising. Since Linux users also increased, the gaming share of Linux has also increased by a noticeable amount. Speaking of the market share of Linux in gaming consoles and gaming tools, the market share has increased to more than 2% in the quarter for the report October 2024.
For gaming on Linux, Steam has already solved the issue of playing online, virtual, and multiplayer games. All major Linux distributions these days support GUI-based gaming facilities, which might have been one of the reasons why Linux Gaming shares are increasing.
According to the survey of gaming on different Linux distributions, here you can see the platform share of gaming as follows below:
- Windows has a major market share of more than 96.56% -0.05%
- For Linux, including Debian, Red Hat, and Fedora Linux, the number of platform shares is 2.03% +0.03%
- Lastly, for the MacOS, the gaming share is 1.41%+0.02%
Reports and trends share that since the different language-based gaming modules and consoles are being developed for Linux, the number of Linux gaming shares will increase significantly in the forthcoming years.
If you are looking for the ultimate gaming solution on a single distribution of Linux, you can play most of the major games on Debian-based distribution. Also, you will see the Debian-based distribution is at the top of the Linux gaming share due to its proper GUI.
There have been huge Linux gaming communities around the world that are celebrating the big achievement of this share. Big thanks to Steam, which alone owns more than 40% of Linux gaming.
Seeing the Linux gaming share increase is a big thing, but there are no worries for Windows gamers. The big reason for Linux’s gaming share growth might be that people these days are most likely concerned about their security and privacy, which is why they are more into Linux, including gamers.
Another reason is that big graphics card manufacturer companies have already started cooperating with all major Linux distributions to improve gameplay.
No matter what the reason and which type of users are more into Linux gaming, seeing the market share increase of Linux gaming is a piece of positive news for both developers and users. The community is getting stronger and hoping that Linux gaming and features will be more updated and hassle-free in the next few years.
If you’re more keen to know about the Linux gaming share and updates, you can pay a visit to the Steam site for more updates.
