Initially Valve's Steam Hardware & Software Survey for December 2025 showed Linux at 3.19%, but they appear to have amended it with a nice boost for Linux.

Initially Valve’s Steam Hardware & Software Survey for December 2025 showed Linux at 3.19%, but they appear to have amended it with a nice boost for Linux. There were a few issues I spotted like languages and such not adding up, but now they do so it appears there’s a few corrections that were made to it this month.

Now the latest figures from Valve show for December 2025:

Windows: 94.23%
Linux: 3.58%
macOS: 2.18%

  • Classy Hatter@sopuli.xyz
    41·
    2 days ago

    So, from Jan’25 to Dec’25, Linux market share grew from 2.06% to 3.58%. That is about 74% growth: (3.58% - 2.06%) / 2.06% * 100% = 73.786…%

    Same numbers for 2024 gives about 17% growth for that year: (2.29% - 1.95%) / 1.95% * 100% = 17.435…%

      • Danitos@reddthat.com
        12·
        2 days ago

        Survey error. They oversampled the Chinese market. In fact, you can also see a huge increase in Chinese language whenever there’s a huge drop un Linux marketshare. It hashappened 2 times that I can remember.

        • Creat@discuss.tchncs.de
          4·
          2 days ago

          I mean there’s isn’t anything to fix. Could just be an unlucky month in selecting people for the survey. As the other person said, it does seem to be a statistical anomaly or actual error. But that is still a pretty massive dip for either of those two options. In and of itself also kinda statistically unlikely, hence my question.

          • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            The December survey was bugged, March could’ve been similar but never fixed. Before this fix, December had numbers that were adding up to more than 100% so it was a bug not just bad luck, they didn’t even redo the survey they just reprocessed the same data.