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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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Happy to have joined that 3% a week or so ago
One of us!
Welcome!
Same! I’m about a month into properly running Mint Cinnamon ans it’s been a lovely experience. Glad to be part of the team
I’ve been using LMDE with cinnamon. Really loving it!
according to Google, Steam has 147 million monthly active users
3.05% of 147 million is about 4.48 million Linux Steam monthly users
according to Google
huh? why would Google know more than Valve about this?
Jesus christ, dude. He obviously means “according to the google search I did!”. This isnt reddit, please dont be pedantic.
No need to be so dramatic either, he might have just misunderstood.
Is this your first time on line? I mean, we have how many years of “google” as a verb? But on this one occasion, decades later, no. Google is being given personhood… Do me a favour.
Same here. Installed Kubuntu on my gaming laptop about 3 months ago. Last week switched to Bazzite (was having issues with a few games not running, Sable being one of them, and didnt feel like messing around with the settings any more). Really loving Bazzite and the fact that games are just working now with minimal to zero messing with various settings.
Very nice! Sable was actually the first game I played through on Bazzite myself!
Game’s a bit janky (it was janky on Xbox too, when I played it there years ago, with exploration stuttering so badly I vowed to return on PC later), so it was a little stressful in that I wasn’t sure if the issues were due to the game’s code or something with Proton, etc😆
But overall a wonderful experience, and an impressive indie debut. I stuck with it until I had all masks this time around!
Yeah! I got it free through Epic right when I switched to Kubuntu. It’s a fun game now that I’ve actually gotten to play it (just left the valley lol).
I mention in a few of my other posts, I have an older Asus Tuf gaming laptop with an Nvidia GTX 1050. I knew I had to download the proprietary drivers for the 1050, but I wasn’t sure which ones, so I think I initially downloaded the 535 drivers. Anyway, Sable launched okay (playing through Heroic), I was able to play until I got into the initial camp, then it crashed and never started up again. I was bummed.
But switching to Bazzite and downloading everything again, and it’s just working. I didnt change anything, didnt have to mess with any settings. It’s awesome!
Steam sent me a survey yesterday. Proud to be a part of those 3%.
Best we can do is Mac support and blocking Linux
What are you talking about?
Despite Linux growth Mac is constantly better supported by Devs.
It doesn’t explain the previous comment tho. The “block Linux” is what I’m not getting. Did you mean drop Linux native, because proton/wine is so good that it isn’t necessary?
Linux machines get banned instead of support.
Which brings me back to. “What are you saying?”. Banning from what?
It’s common knowledge that games like Apex Legends blocked Linux access or deployed an anti-cheat that previously was fine, that then players got bans for. Source: I’m taking you to Reddit, deal with it https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1iszbmu/games_that_banned_linux/
Fairlight 84 https://steamcommunity.com/app/1928420/discussions/0/600788619628804058/
Fuck me you’re needy, it was a light-hearted comment, if you spent any time in the Linux gaming space, I wouldn’t have to spoon-feed you a joke. Have a good one.
No I’m not explaining what the one is :D
Sheesh. Another community I’m more than happy to ignore.
something something year of the linux destkop
That’s some good news!
