{"id":263748,"date":"2026-06-04T05:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/steam-survey-for-may-2026-after-delay-linux-just-under-4\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:55:11","slug":"steam-survey-for-may-2026-after-delay-linux-just-under-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/steam-survey-for-may-2026-after-delay-linux-just-under-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam Survey For May 2026 After Delay: Linux Just Under 4%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Steam-Survey-May-2026\">Steam Survey For May 2026 After Delay: Linux Just Under 4%<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Steam-Survey-May-2026\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Steam-Survey-May-2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-04 05:38:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in March Steam on Linux skyrocketed to 5.33% with more than double the Steam gaming marketshare of macOS. Then for April Steam on Linux pulled back to a still-great 4.52%, well above the times when Steam on Linux was at 2% or less for many years. Now the May 2026 figures have been published overnight by Valve.<\/p>\n<p>With the start of the new month, Valve has now published their Steam Survey results for May after a slight delay&#8230; Since the evening of the 1st has been the &#8220;Oops, sorry!&#8221; error message when trying to access the hardware survey. Finally that issue is now resolved and Linux comes in at&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=steam_may_1\" alt=\"Steam Linux marketshare for May\"\/><\/p>\n<p>3.99%. It&#8217;s off the recent highs but still well better off than during the sub-2% period. At 3.99% for Linux it&#8217;s still well above the 2.16% marketshare for macOS.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=steam_may_2\" alt=\"Steam OS marketshare for May\"\/><\/p>\n<p>SteamOS continues accounting for just under a quarter of the Linux gamers on Steam.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=steam_may_3\" alt=\"Steam Linux CPU marketshare for May\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And thanks in large part to the Steam Deck using a custom AMD APU as well as the nature of AMD open-source Linux drivers, AMD CPU use among Linux gamers continues hovering just under the 70% threshold.<\/p>\n<p>All of the May numbers for those interested can be found on SteamPowered.com.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Steam-Survey-May-2026\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam Survey For May 2026 After Delay: Linux Just Under 4% https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Steam-Survey-May-2026 Publish Date: 2026-06-04&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&image=steam_may_1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-263748","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\/263748"}],"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=263748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263752,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263748\/revisions\/263752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}