It’s finally happening! The year of the Linux… PC gaming handheld device. (Okay, that doesn’t quite roll off the tongue.) According to the latest Steam hardware survey , Linux has just over 3 percent of the market share of users who have Steam installed. It has almost certainly benefited from Valve’s own Steam Deck, which derives its handheld SteamOS operating system from a Linux base.

It’s not quite as one-sided as you might think. “SteamOS Holo” is the most popular flavor of Linux among Steam users, claiming 27.18 percent of the Linux slice. (That’s the latest version of the system on Steam Decks and exactly one other retail device at the time of writing, the Lenovo Legion Go S . Downloads are also available for the original ROG Ally .) That means about 1 in every 125 Steam users

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