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%
And here’s our amended trend chart from our dedicated Steam Tracker page with the new data:
From the new data the most popular Linux distributions for December 2025. With the update, we see a few more distributions being noted in the list compared with before:
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 Edition) 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 Edition) 64 bit 1.54% +1.54%
Linux Mint 22.1 64 bit 1.42% -0.54%
Other 17.67% -2.76%
When the data originally came out Debian 13, Linux Mint 22.1, Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition) and Ubuntu Core 24 were not present. Ubuntu Core 22 no longer appears in it replaced with Ubuntu Core 24.
For those curious on how much the Steam Deck is pushing the number up, when checking out the Linux stats Valve report the “AMD Custom GPU 0405” (Steam Deck LCD) at 13.37% and the “AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV VANGOGH)” (Steam Deck OLED) at 12.48% so together it’s about 25.85%.
There’s still some issues with the survey, but mainly down to presentation with things being all out of order. Hopefully they get around to fixing that sometime too.
Source: Valve
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
