After [1]Steam on Linux gaming hit a record high in December of 3.58%, the January 2026 numbers are now published.

One year ago for January 2025 [2]Steam on Linux was around 2.0% and for January 2024 it was [3]coming in under 2% , and back in January 2023 at [4]1.3% . If going back a decade, [5]Steam on Linux was at just 0.95% for January 2016 . For January 2026 it ended up dipping 0.2% from December down to a still-string 3.28%.

Windows increased by 0.39% to 94.62% and macOS was at 2.01% to Linux's 3.38%.

Steam OS usage accounted for around a quarter of the Linux gamers.

And AMD CPU usage accounted for 67% of Linux gaming systems, thanks in large part to the Steam Deck using a custom AMD APU.

All the survey data for January can be found at [6]SteamPowered.com .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-December-2025-Revised

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-January-2025

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

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-January-2023

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Linux-January-2016

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