Valve amended the Steam survey for December 2025 – Linux actually hit another all-time high

Initially Valve’s Steam {Hardware} & Software program Survey for December 2025 showed Linux at 3.19%, however they seem to have amended it with a pleasant enhance for Linux. There have been a couple of points I noticed like languages and such not including up, however now they accomplish that it seems there’s a couple of corrections that had been made to it this month.

Now the newest figures from Valve present for December 2025:

• Home windows: 94.23%
• Linux: 3.58%
• macOS: 2.18%

And here is our amended development chart from our dedicated Steam Tracker page with the brand new information:

From the brand new information the most well-liked Linux distributions for December 2025. With the replace, we see a couple of extra distributions being famous within the listing in contrast with earlier than:

• SteamOS Holo 64 bit 26.32% -0.10%
• Arch Linux 64 bit 9.54% -0.43%
• Linux Mint 22.2 64 bit 7.85% +0.49%
• CachyOS 64 bit 7.20% +0.46%
• Freedesktop SDK 25.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 6.29% +0.33%
• Bazzite 64 bit 5.89% +0.36%
• Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS 64 bit 3.93% +0.07%
• Ubuntu Core 24 64 bit 3.23% +3.23%
• EndeavourOS Linux 64 bit 2.12% +0.02%
• Fedora Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Version) 64 bit 1.91% +1.91%
• Manjaro Linux 64 bit 1.73% -0.17%
• Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) 64 bit 1.72% +0.14%
• Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS 64 bit 1.64% -0.26%
• Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Version) 64 bit 1.54% +1.54%
• Linux Mint 22.1 64 bit 1.42% -0.54%
• Different 17.67% -2.76%

When the info initially got here out Debian 13, Linux Mint 22.1, Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Version) and Ubuntu Core 24 weren’t current. Ubuntu Core 22 not seems in it changed with Ubuntu Core 24.

For these curious on how a lot the Steam Deck is pushing the quantity up, when trying out the Linux stats Valve report the “AMD Customized GPU 0405” (Steam Deck LCD) at 13.37% and the “AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV VANGOGH)” (Steam Deck OLED) at 12.48% so collectively it is about 25.85%.

There’s nonetheless some points with the survey, however primarily all the way down to presentation with issues being all out of order. Hopefully they get round to fixing that someday too.

Supply: Valve

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.