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.
With the update, we see a few more distributions being noted in the list compared with before:
I wonder if the miscount is due to distribution names, or some other issue
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I wonder if the miscount is due to distribution names, or some other issue
Did it count each time stream asked me if I wanted to submit my results?
If so, I definitely skewed the results
Considering in absolute numbers the monthly active Linux users is around 4,725,600 I trust you haven’t skewed them too sharply.