Steam survey for December 2025 shows Linux holding to 3.19%

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• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Full time Linux here. No complaints.

  Been playing expedition 33 and vampire survivors.

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• Alchalide@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Release steam OS and see it shoot up. For the people saying : just use this or that distro. I don’t want to tinker.

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  • ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I know people are holding out for legit Steam OS, but Bazzite exists specifically for those people, who would prefer to hold out for Steam OS.

    Might be worth looking at, its not for tinkerers.

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    • Killer57@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Bazzite is amazing, highly recommend.

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Most Linux distros you don’t have to tinker anymore. I like Garuda, for a traditional desktop experience, but also including everything for gaming. I’ve heard CachyOS is similar but I haven’t tried it yet. If you want SteamOS (aka, a somewhat limited experience built for a handheld/console-like experience) Bazzite is great. None of these will require tinkering. They work out of the box and are easier to install than Windows even. SteamOS will be very similar. You won’t be getting anything you can’t already have.

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    • MudMan@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Having daily driven Bazzite for ages now...

      ...nah, you still will tinker.

      Linux advocates just don't parse what "tinkering" means for most users, and frequent distro hoppers tend to think anything that doesn't break in the install process is "tinker-free". Neither is even remotely accurate.

      Bazzite is alright, but it defaults to autoupdates, so you may want to understand how rolling back on a Fedora atomic distro works if you don't want to be confused later when something fixes itself/breaks randomly for no reason.

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• MudMan@fedia.io ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Also Windows 11 up 5%, including seemingly all of Win10's 2.5% drop and a bunch more over, with Windows overall growing slghtly by .16% (holiday purchased new hardware, presumably?).

  Maybe I can just link people to this first one in all the upcoming "told you so"s regarding the crazy disproportionate hype from Linux advocates about Win10's EoL, how fast that was going to go and in what direction.

  Expect with more expensive hardware coming up and no holiday sales that move to continue to be largely towards Win11 and very slow, as people continue to not give much of a crap about security patches.

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• JoeKrogan@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I voted on deck and my laptop.

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• mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve been on steam for over 10 years now. Was never picked for the hardware survey until yesterday. Glad I’m part of the Linux number.

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• favoredponcho@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  When I installed Linux, everything worked fine. When I installed Windows, my WiFi and Bluetooth wouldn’t work until I downloaded the drivers on another computer, loaded the on a USB drive and installed them.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Opposite for me. I’ve never had 100% Linux drivers, any distro, work out the box. Been screwing around with various distros for 25 years. As of 2026, I’d shit if Windows didn’t light up all my hardware.

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• sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  At what percentage do you think Linux will be a serious target for large game developers?

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  • warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For something like FIFA & Call of Duty for example?

    I imagine somewhere between 8% and 20% just for enabling anticheat support. That would be around 20 million monthly active users.

    Some smaller devs are already doing the extra mile and making native ports, like Baldur’s Gate 3 for example.

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  • Egonallanon@feddit.uk ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I reckon you’d have to be at least in the double digits for larger studios/orgs to take notice. Though the steam deck has already had a very positive effect on the number of Linux native games in the indie space.

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    • MudMan@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sounds about right. Console install counts start being "relevant" after 20-ish million unit sales. The Deck itself isn't close to that, and the overall Linux install base on Steam is maybe what, a third of that?

      But I'd argue you need more for Steam, because a lot of those Linux users also have Windows available as it is, given that about 20% of them are on a Steam Deck and many of those likely have a Windows PC on the side rather than only using Steam on the Deck.

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