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Linux reached a record high in Steam's statistics in March 2026, recording around 5.3 percent of the player base. This is more than twice as much as macOS, which hovers around 2.3–2.4 percent, and more than double the previous year. In absolute numbers, this translates to around 20 million Linux users on Valve's platform. While still a small group compared to Windows, it's the largest ever recorded. Gamers love Steam Deck. Steam Deck remains the…
Unusual activity in Steam hardware surveys, possibly due to the arrest of a user in China for using a VPN.
Steam regularly surveys users' hardware and software environments and publishes the results monthly. The results for March 2026 showed significant changes. Steam Hardware & Software Survey https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam?platform=combined The top result of Steam's survey is the OS market share. The number on the far right is the month-on-month change, and it appears that Windows 11 has incr…
Latest Steam Hardware Survey Shows A Spike In 16 GB System RAM Share; Linux Surpasses 5% Share For The First Time
Several things have changed, and there have been some major fluctuations on both the hardware and OS levels. Steam Hardware Survey March 2026 Reveals Linux Suddenly Spiked to Over 5%; 16 GB System RAM is Now More Popular Than 32 GB The Steam Hardware Survey data for March 2026 is out, and there have been major changes in shares on both hardware and OS levels. The last survey showed a huge spike in shares for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs…
Linux Crosses the 5% Threshold on Steam — And This Time, It Might Actually Matter
For years, Linux gaming was a punchline. A hobby for tinkerers, not a platform for serious play. That’s changing — and the numbers finally back it up. Valve’s monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey for June 2025 shows Linux surpassing 5% of all Steam users for the first time. The figure — modest by any conventional measure — represents a psychological milestone for a platform that spent the better part of a decade hovering between 1% and 2%. I…
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