Valve has conscionable published the Steam Survey results for December 2022 that travel successful astatine a spot of a surprise.

As published successful aboriginal December and remained the numbers up until today, the November 2022 metrics enactment Steam connected Linux astatine a 1.44% marketshare arsenic a 0.16% summation implicit October. The November results pointed toward gains successful the Linux marketshare arsenic a effect of accrued Steam Deck usage based connected the SteamOS Holo and AMD Custom GPU 0405 information points.

Steam Linux percentages for November 2022.

Steam Linux percentages for December 2022 with a "weird" percent summation for month-over-month.

But making things unusual is the December 2022 study putting the Linux marketshare up 0.10%, but the percent marketshare astatine 1.38%... Or 0.06% little than than November's numbers. So it's yet different lawsuit of re-calculated numbers oregon different oddities from the Steam Survey results.

The archetypal November information enactment macOS astatine 2.45% and Windows astatine 96.11% portion the newly-published December information has Windows astatine 96.15% with a reported 0.35% diminution and macOS astatine a 0.25% summation to 2.48%. Again, not aligning astatine each from Valve's anterior period data.

Making the December numbers each the much unusual is that erstwhile pulling up the Linux-only survey information it shows a 0.91% diminution for SteamOS Holo (though a 0.77% summation to the Flatpak Steam), the AMD CPU marketshare falling by 0.84%, and the AMD Custom GPU 0405 percent falling by 0.90%. Or successful different words, the Steam Deck marketshare of Linux gamers contracting by conscionable nether 1% for the period of December. That's alternatively antithetic considering the occurrence of the Steam Deck and Valve continuing to vessel vastly much units each week and it being the main operator close present for Linux gaming adoption.

So either the random constituent of the Steam Survey enactment was alternatively bonkers for December oregon determination is different unusual things happening with the Steam Survey that look to hap each truthful often. We'll spot if the numbers get revised successful the days up portion for present you tin find the existent information astatine SteamPowered.com.