How much of that do we think is down to the steamdeck? (and I guess similar form factor alternatives)
GPU VanGogh (the name Steam gives to SteamDeck GPU) is currently ~40% of the whole Linux userbase on Steam; so, yeah. pretty much everything.
I guess Intel dropping the ball on being competitive for a couple of generations probably hasn’t helped either
Intel has never been competitive in terms of GPUs. PCs running Intel iGPUs are machines waiting for a 'real' GPU and the like. Intel Arcs are relatively too young to have a significant weight in the totality of the userbase: naturally, for the sake of Linux, one hopes that Intel can gain more weight... specifically against Nvidia which is currently the only company to have exclusively closed source drivers
That implies that the remaining 60% non-vangogh GPU is evenly split between AMD and Nvidia which is still interesting given Nvidia's much higher market share. That does line up with the general disposition of Linux users - dislike of tech giants
I think a good amount of that is gonna be Steam Decks, maybe to a lesser extent custom APU-based builds for things like HTPCs.
To be honest, if I was looking at building a new Linux based gaming rig now, it would likely be all AMD, especially given their recent open source moves with the EFI/Agisa or whatever it's called. Not to mention the excellent linux driver support for their GPUs in comparison to Nvidia.
Just wish AMD would standardise their GPU naming scheme because it's confusing for people like me who aren't following it ☹️ the last time I understood their naming scheme there were RX460/RX470/RX480, then next year RX560/RX570/RX580, but now it's RX 7600 7900XT, 7900XTX 😵
Fuck Nvidia after they removed the only thing I really cared about - GameStream. Never owned a graphics card that isn't from Nvidia (if you don't count integrated Intel), now I'm gonna actively avoid them.