{"id":40171,"date":"2025-08-02T09:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T09:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/40171\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T09:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T09:41:11","slug":"steam-survey-for-july-shows-linux-use-approaching-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/40171\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam Survey For July Shows Linux Use Approaching 3%"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"VALVE\"
\nBack in February Steam on Linux was at a 1.45% marketshare<\/a>, then was corrected to 2.33% for Linux gaming in March<\/a>, 2.27% for April<\/a>, a nice jump to 2.69% for Linux gaming in May<\/a>, and June came in at 2.57%<\/a> for the Linux gaming population as a percent of Steam users. The July numbers were published this evening and show a new recent high for Linux gamers.<\/p>\n

The July 2025 results of the Steam Survey were posted a few minutes ago and show a healthy 0.32% increase to put the Linux gaming marketshare at 2.89%. That’s a recent high in percentage terms and while Steam saw around 3% in the early days of Steam on Linux a decade ago, in absolute terms this is likely the largest surveyed figure ever for the Linux gaming population. <\/p>\n

\"Steam<\/p>\n

Linux was at 2.89% for July while macOS was at 1.88% and Windows at 95.23%.<\/p>\n

\"Steam<\/p>\n

Overall though SteamOS Holo as the base (Arch Linux derived) operating system of the Steam Deck continues to rank most common, to no surprise.<\/p>\n

\"Steam<\/p>\n

Thanks in large part to the Steam Deck being powered by a custom AMD APU and then many Linux gamers and enthusiasts preferring AMD to their open-source nature, AMD CPU use among Linux gamers continues to hover around the 68% mark. Under Windows, AMD CPU use on Steam is around 40%.<\/p>\n

Those wanting to dig through all the Steam Survey data for July 2025 can find all the information on SteamPowered.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in February Steam on Linux was at a 1.45% marketshare, then was corrected to 2.33% for Linux…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5870,59,5869,5867,5866,5873,5871,5868,5872,5865,5876,86,5874,5875,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-40171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-desktop-linux","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-linux-benchmarking","11":"tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","12":"tag-linux-hardware-reviews","13":"tag-linux-how-to","14":"tag-linux-performance","15":"tag-linux-server-benchmarks","16":"tag-open-source-graphics","17":"tag-phoronix","18":"tag-phoronix-test-suite","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","21":"tag-ubuntu-hardware","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}