{"id":218994,"date":"2026-03-02T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/steam-survey-for-february-2026-shows-a-big-swing-to-simplified-chinese\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T05:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T10:55:10","slug":"steam-survey-for-february-2026-shows-a-big-swing-to-simplified-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/steam-survey-for-february-2026-shows-a-big-swing-to-simplified-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam Survey for February 2026 shows a big swing to Simplified Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/03\/steam-survey-for-february-2026-shows-a-big-swing-to-simplified-chinese\/\">Steam Survey for February 2026 shows a big swing to Simplified Chinese<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/03\/steam-survey-for-february-2026-shows-a-big-swing-to-simplified-chinese\/\">https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/03\/steam-survey-for-february-2026-shows-a-big-swing-to-simplified-chinese\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-02 04:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.gamingonlinux.com\">www.gamingonlinux.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Steam Hardware &#038; Software Survey for February 2026 is live and it&#8217;s looking a bit odd, with a huge swing towards Simplified Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>As usual when this happens, the Linux share drops as well and one of the biggest drops we&#8217;ve seen in a single month. It&#8217;s entirely likely that Valve will do some sort of correction here as they&#8217;ve done before. But for now the data shows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows 96.61% +1.99%<\/li>\n<li>Linux 2.23% -1.15%<\/li>\n<li>macOS 1.16% -0.85%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For languages English is now at 22.27% (-14.74%) with Simplified Chinese at 54.60% (+30.74%). For a single month, something about this doesn&#8217;t seem quite right. Especially with Windows 10 64 bit seeing +12.46%. <\/p>\n<p>The usual snapshot from our dedicated Steam Tracker page:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>For just Linux, the popular distributions listed are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SteamOS Holo 64 bit 23.83% +23.83%<\/li>\n<li>Arch Linux 64 bit 9.07% +9.07%<\/li>\n<li>CachyOS 64 bit 8.59% +8.59%<\/li>\n<li>Linux Mint 22.3 64 bit 6.62% +4.29%<\/li>\n<li>Bazzite 64 bit 5.79% +5.79%<\/li>\n<li>Freedesktop SDK 25.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 5.26% -1.08%<\/li>\n<li>Ubuntu Core 24 64 bit 3.82% -0.10%<\/li>\n<li>Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS 64 bit 2.83% -0.94%<\/li>\n<li>Linux Mint 22.2 64 bit 2.59% -3.98%<\/li>\n<li>Other 31.58% +16.20%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be keeping an eye on it to see if Valve tweak anything.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Valve<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"hidden_message\">Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/03\/steam-survey-for-february-2026-shows-a-big-swing-to-simplified-chinese\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam Survey for February 2026 shows a big swing to Simplified Chinese https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/03\/steam-survey-for-february-2026-shows-a-big-swing-to-simplified-chinese\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/uploads\/tagline_gallery\/steamos-2025.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[99,71,110,79],"class_list":["post-218994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-arch-linux","tag-linux","tag-linux-mint","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218996,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218994\/revisions\/218996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}