Initially Valve's Steam Hardware & Software Survey for December 2025 showed Linux at 3.19%, but they appear to have amended it with a nice boost for Linux. There were a few issues I spotted like languages and such not adding up, but now they do so it appears there's a few corrections that were made to it this month.
Now the latest figures from Valve show for December 2025:
Windows: 94.23%
Linux: 3.58%
macOS: 2.18%
10 Comments
ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz · 42 pts · 253d
So, from Jan'25 to Dec'25, Linux market share grew from 2.06% to 3.58%. That is about 74% growth: (3.58% - 2.06%) / 2.06% * 100% = 73.786...%
Same numbers for 2024 gives about 17% growth for that year: (2.29% - 1.95%) / 1.95% * 100% = 17.435...%
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 253d
Year of the Linux desktop and all that.
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com · 19 pts · 253d
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/
Creat@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 253d
The heck happened in March?
Danitos@reddthat.com · 14 pts · 252d
Survey error. They oversampled the Chinese market. In fact, you can also see a huge increase in Chinese language whenever there's a huge drop un Linux marketshare. It hashappened 2 times that I can remember.
GraveyardOrbit@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 252d
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com · 6 pts · 252d
could've been a flawed survey like this one but Valve never fixed it?
Creat@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 252d
I mean there's isn't anything to fix. Could just be an unlucky month in selecting people for the survey. As the other person said, it does seem to be a statistical anomaly or actual error. But that is still a pretty massive dip for either of those two options. In and of itself also kinda statistically unlikely, hence my question.
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com · 3 pts · 252d
The December survey was bugged, March could've been similar but never fixed. Before this fix, December had numbers that were adding up to more than 100% so it was a bug not just bad luck, they didn't even redo the survey they just reprocessed the same data.
WillowBe@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 253d
Nice! thats pretty cool
RandomStickman@fedia.io · 9 pts · 253d
I remember sering it hit 1% and the big bump with the deck. Great stuff