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Anonymous12/03/25, 15:45No.727431813
>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.
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Anon12/03/25, 15:47No.727431914
Who cares?
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Anon12/03/25, 15:48No.727431954
nice, i care a lot about this
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Anon12/03/25, 15:50No.727432078
2026 YOTLD
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Anon12/03/25, 15:56No.727432420
I switched to Linux and I gotta ask; why does this OS fetishize the command terminal so much? I just get this feeling while using Linux that the following conversation occurred:
"hey should we make this simple thing users will probably do often a couple of clicks of a mouse?"
"no fuck that force them to open the terminal any time they want to do anything"
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Anon12/03/25, 16:00No.727432664
reminder
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Anon12/03/25, 16:20No.727433878
Seeing Linux users fight with each other over which Linux distro is the best on Reddit is hilarious.
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Anon12/03/25, 16:31No.727434548
>Linux might get to 5%
Wow, epic "win", guys...
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Anon12/03/25, 16:46No.727435648
For how much people hate Windows 11 I would say it looks a lot more favorable for Windows than for Linux. Gotta remember that the Gamernexus dude, Pewdiepie and Linus shilled linux a lot very recently, but the growth is still very small.
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Anon12/03/25, 16:52No.727436053
I have a few things to take care of but after all that's done in a few months I'm switching, I legitimately hate windows at this point and am now willing to suck it up and deal with linux being shitty.
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Anon12/03/25, 17:11No.727437350
I expect some serious kneeling once we hit 8-10%.
Watch how kernel level anti cheat will be deactivated.
We might even get more Linux native games.
Windows golems count your days, Linux gods are here.
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Anon12/03/25, 17:14No.727437624
Android gaming soon
https://steamdb.info/app/3029110/
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Anon12/03/25, 17:21No.727438060
>I don't think 7% by 2030 (10 million users) is unrealistic
It is. It's VERY unrealistic. Like, unreasonably so.
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Anon12/03/25, 17:27No.727438489
>3%
it's 7% if you cut it down to english speakers
what chinks do literally doesn't matter
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Anon12/03/25, 17:35No.727439139
you just know that the moment it hits 5% fags will start screeching that too many normies are using linux now
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Anon12/03/25, 17:39No.727439413
Same here, I might actually switch completely to Bazzite on my next build because it's exactly what I wanted. I already work in tech support and don't want to spend my free time troubleshooting my PC.I lose my shit when something breaks on my day off.
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Anon12/03/25, 17:49No.727440070
Ultramarine just werks. There's no reason to use immutableshit.