Back in March [1]Steam on Linux skyrocketed to 5.33% with more than double the Steam gaming marketshare of macOS. Then for April [2]Steam on Linux pulled back to a still-great 4.52% , well above the times when Steam on Linux was at 2% or less for many years. Now the May 2026 figures have been published overnight by Valve.

With the start of the new month, Valve has now published their Steam Survey results for May after a slight delay... Since the evening of the 1st has been the "Oops, sorry!" error message when trying to access the hardware survey. Finally that issue is now resolved and Linux comes in at...

3.99%. It's off the recent highs but still well better off than during the sub-2% period. At 3.99% for Linux it's still well above the 2.16% marketshare for macOS.

SteamOS continues accounting for just under a quarter of the Linux gamers on Steam.

And thanks in large part to the Steam Deck using a custom AMD APU as well as the nature of AMD open-source Linux drivers, AMD CPU use among Linux gamers continues hovering just under the 70% threshold.

All of the May numbers for those interested can be found on [3]SteamPowered.com .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-On-Linux-Tops-5p

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-April-2026-Survey

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