March Steam Survey: Intel Arc Finally Breaks Into the Charts as AMD and Linux Reach Record Shares

March Steam survey: Intel Arc finally breaks into the charts as AMD and Linux reach record shares

February was one of those weird months where the Steam survey saw massive changes from the status quo: the RTX 5070 became the top GPU, AMD lost CPU share, Windows 11 was down 10%, and Chinese became the most common language among participants.Read Entire Article

Techrights — Steam Survey for Last Month Says 5.33% Use GNU/Linux

big leap for GNU/Linux

Linux users surge on Steam, doubling in a year

The Steam Deck is a huge part of that, obviously... but it's a smaller factor in the total Linux number than you might think.

Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% In March

Valve's March 2026 Steam Survey shows Linux gaming usage jumping to a record 5.33% share -- more than double macOS's 2.35%. Phoronix reports: Steam on Linux was never above 5% and easily an all-time high for the Linux gaming marketshare, especially in absolute numbers. It was a massive 3.1% spike in March while macOS also jumped surprisingly by 1.19% to 2.35%. The Steam Survey numbers show Windows losing 4.28%, down to 92.33%. Part of the jump a…