>The Steam Survey results are out for November 2025 and continue to be very positive for the growing adoption of Linux gaming thanks to the success of the Steam Deck, the underlying Steam Play (Proton) software, and now further excitement thanks to the upcoming Steam Machine and Steam Frame.
>A decade ago in the early Steam days the initial use was around 3% and back then the Steam user-base in absolute terms was much smaller than it is today. Back in October Steam on Linux finally re-crossed that 3% threshold after for years being stuck in a 1~2% rut. Now the Steam Survey results were published minutes ago for November and they continue an upward trend for Linux. Steam on Linux is up to 3.2%, an increase of 0.15% for the month. One year ago Steam on Linux was at 2.03% last November, 1.91% for November 2023, and a decade ago for November 2015 was at just 0.98%.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Linux-November-2025
3.20% sounds insignificant but given the size of Steam's monthly userbase that's roughly ~4.7 million Linux users.
I don't think 7% by 2030 (10 million users) is unrealistic with Steam Frame and Steam Machine hitting the market and SteamOS presumably getting an official desktop release in the near future. Probably see another Steam Deck release in 2027-2028 on AMD's new architecture. Exciting times.