If Valve’s newest Steam Survey month-to-month figures are correct, Steam on Linux loved a really wild month of March. Steam on Linux is now above the 5% threshold and greater than twice the scale of the Steam on macOS marketshare.
Steam on Linux ended 2025 at around a 3.5% marketshare, dipped a bit in January, and fell to 2.23% in February. That’s nonetheless a lot better than a number of years in the past within the pre-Steam-Deck days when Steam on Linux was at around 1%. In absolute phrases with the continued development of the Steam consumer base, 2~3% was relatively wholesome contemplating all of its bumps over the previous decade.
But Valve simply revealed the Steam Survey outcomes for March 2026 they usually have by no means been so unbelievable for Linux… 5.33%! Steam on Linux was by no means above 5% and simply an all-time excessive for the Linux gaming marketshare, particularly in absolute numbers. It was an enormous 3.1% spike in March whereas macOS additionally jumped surprisinfly by 1.19% to 2.35%. The Steam Survey numbers present Windows shedding 4.28%, right down to 92.33%.
Part of the soar no less than seems to be defined by Valve correcting once more the Steam China numbers. Month over month they report a 31.85% drop to the Simplified Chinese language use and English use rising by 16.82% to 39.09%. Other languages additionally confirmed positive aspects amid the huge decline in Simplified Chinese use.
The newest numbers for March present round 1 / 4 of the Linux players are working Steam OS.
Due partly to the Steam Deck APU being a customized AMD product and the recognition of AMD {hardware} on Linux for its open-supply nature, AMD CPU use by Steam on Linux players stays just below 70%.
All the Steam Survey outcomes for March could be discovered through SteamPowered.com.
