The Steam Survey results are out for November 2025 and continue to be very positive for the growing adoption of Linux gaming thanks to the success of the Steam Deck, the underlying Steam Play (Proton) software, and now further excitement thanks to the upcoming [1]Steam Machine and Steam Frame .

A decade ago in the early Steam days the initial use was around 3% and back then the Steam user-base in absolute terms was much smaller than it is today. Back in October [2]Steam on Linux finally re-crossed that 3% threshold after for years being stuck in a 1~2% rut. Now the Steam Survey results were published minutes ago for November and they continue an upward trend for Linux.

Steam on Linux is up to 3.2%, an increase of 0.15% for the month. One year ago [3]Steam on Linux was at 2.03% last November, [4]1.91% for November 2023 , and a decade ago for November 2015 was at [5]just 0.98% .

SteamOS Holo that powers the Steam Deck and upcoming Steam Machine and Steam Frame continue to be the most prominent Linux distribution along with Ubuntu and Arch Linux based distros, etc.

Due to AMD APUs powering the Steam Deck, AMD CPUs continue to power nearly 70% of Linux gaming systems. Meanwhile under Windows, AMD has around a 42% CPU marketshare.

Those wanting to jump through all of the Steam Survey results for November can find the data on [6]SteamPowered.com .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Machines-Frame-2026

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Linux-Above-3P-Oct-2025

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-November-2024

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Linux-November-2023

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-Nov-2015

[6] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam