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Valve amended the Steam survey for December 2025 - Linux actually hit another all-time high (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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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%

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[–] 43 points 9 months ago (1 child)

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...%

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    • [–] 20 points 9 months ago

    Nice! thats pretty cool

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    [–] 19 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    The heck happened in March?

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    could've been a flawed survey like this one but Valve never fixed it?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago*

    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.

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    • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    I remember sering it hit 1% and the big bump with the deck. Great stuff

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