{"id":230286,"date":"2026-04-01T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/steam-on-linux-use-skyrocketed-in-march-more-than-double-the-macos-gaming-marketshare\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T04:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T08:25:11","slug":"steam-on-linux-use-skyrocketed-in-march-more-than-double-the-macos-gaming-marketshare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/steam-on-linux-use-skyrocketed-in-march-more-than-double-the-macos-gaming-marketshare\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March &#8211; More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Steam-On-Linux-Tops-5p\">Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March &#8211; More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Steam-On-Linux-Tops-5p\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Steam-On-Linux-Tops-5p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-01 20:44:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If Valve&#8217;s latest Steam Survey monthly figures are accurate, Steam on Linux enjoyed a very wild month of March. Steam on Linux is now above the 5% threshold and more than twice the size of the Steam on macOS marketshare.<\/p>\n<p>Steam on Linux ended 2025 at around a 3.5% marketshare, dipped a bit in January, and fell to 2.23% in February. That&#8217;s still much better than several years ago in the pre-Steam-Deck days when Steam on Linux was at around 1%. In absolute terms with the continued growth of the Steam user base, 2~3% was rather healthy considering all of its bumps over the past decade.\n<\/p>\n<p>But Valve just published the Steam Survey results for March 2026 and they have never been so incredible for Linux&#8230; 5.33%! Steam on Linux was never above 5% and easily an all-time high for the Linux gaming marketshare, especially in absolute numbers. It was a massive 3.1% spike in March while macOS also jumped surprisinfly by 1.19% to 2.35%. The Steam Survey numbers show Windows losing 4.28%, down to 92.33%.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=steam_march_1\" alt=\"Steam on Linux above 5%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Part of the jump at least appears to be explained by Valve correcting again the Steam China numbers. Month over month they report a 31.85% drop to the Simplified Chinese language use and English use increasing by 16.82% to 39.09%. Other languages also showed gains amid the massive decline in Simplified Chinese use.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=steam_march_2\" alt=\"Steam China\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The latest numbers for March show around a quarter of the Linux gamers are running Steam OS.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=steam_march_3\" alt=\"Steam OS at 25%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Due in part to the Steam Deck APU being a custom AMD product and the popularity of AMD hardware on Linux for its open-source nature, AMD CPU use by Steam on Linux gamers remains just under 70%.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=steam_march_4\" alt=\"Linux CPU use\"\/><\/p>\n<p>All the Steam Survey results for March can be found via SteamPowered.com.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Steam-On-Linux-Tops-5p\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March &#8211; More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&image=steam_march_1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-230286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230286"}],"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=230286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230288,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230286\/revisions\/230288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}