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Steam On Linux Use Up 1% From Last September

([Valve] 4 Hours Ago Steam Linux Marketshare)


Valve just published the Steam Survey results for September with a slight increase to the Linux gaming userbase.

In July [1]Steam on Linux was at 2.89% but then for August it [2]fell to 2.64% . Now for September it crept up to 2.68%.

Windows meanwhile was at 95.4% and macOS at 1.91%.

On a year-over-year basis [3]Steam on Linux was at 1.87% , so basically up 1% year-over-year for September.

The Steam Linux numbers for September aren't too changed from August with SteamOS Holo coming in at 28% use among Linux gamers and Arch Linux at 10.69%. The AMD CPU marketshare among Linux gamers at 68%.

Those interested in all the Steam Survey numbers can find them on [4]SteamPowered.com .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-July-2025

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

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

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



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