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Steam On Linux Gaming Finally Cracks 3% For October 2025 (www.phoronix.com)

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Steam on Linux use has hit an all-time high! With the Steam Survey results for October 2025 coming out this evening, Steam on Linux has finally cracked the 3% threshold! A few months back Steam on Linux was close to 3% before stumbling a bit but now it's above that elusive threshold. The only time Steam on Linux use was close to the 3% mark was when Steam on Linux initially debuted a decade ago and at that time the overall Steam user-base was much smaller than it is today. Long story short, thanks to the ongoing success of Valve's Steam Deck and other handhelds plus Steam Play (Proton) working out so well, these October numbers are the best yet.

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[–] dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I know this is a tiny percentage overall, but it’s a very substantial boost to the Linux percent, perhaps correlating with Win10 losing free security updates, and a minority of savvy gamers swapping to Linux. (Myself included, so obviously bias to my statement)

[–] imecth@fedia.io 19 points 2 days ago

It's easy to forget what these "tiny" percents represent but steam has 132 million monthly active users, 3 percent of that means that we now have over 3 million linux players.