{"id":284765,"date":"2026-07-01T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/steam-on-linux-usage-receded-a-bit-in-june\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T00:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:20:14","slug":"steam-on-linux-usage-receded-a-bit-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/steam-on-linux-usage-receded-a-bit-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam On Linux Usage Receded A Bit In June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Steam-Survey-June-2026\">Steam On Linux Usage Receded A Bit In June<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Steam-Survey-June-2026\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Steam-Survey-June-2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-01 20:23:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in March Steam on Linux use shot up to 5.33% as a big 3.1% improvement over February. In April it dropped to 4.52% and then fell to 3.99% in May. Valve just published the Steam Survey numbers for June and it points to another minor setback from the recent all-time high of Steam on Linux.<\/p>\n<p>The Steam Survey numbers for June put Linux at 3.69%, a decrease of 0.3% compared to May. Or down 1.64% from the all-time high in March. Linux dropped while macOS was up by 0.05% to 2.21% and WInmdows increased by 0.25% to 94.1%.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=steam_june_1\" alt=\"Steam on Linux OS stats for June\"\/><\/p>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, in the June survey, Simplified Chinese use shot up by 2.34% to 24.19% of all Steam users. Usually when there is a big increase to the Chinese Steam user-base it correlates to decreased Linux usage.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=steam_june_2\" alt=\"Steam OS \/ Linux OS stats for June\"\/><\/p>\n<p>SteamOS continues to account for around 23% of all Linux gamers.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=steam_june_3\" alt=\"Linux CPU usage for June\"\/><\/p>\n<p>AMD CPU usage among Linux gamers came in at just under 67%. The Steam Deck and Steam Machine are powered by an AMD custom SoC and AMD CPUs being popular in general with Linux gamers\/enthusiasts in part for the company&#8217;s open-source reputation.<\/p>\n<p>Those wanting to go through all of the June statistics from the Steam Survey can do so at SteamPowered.com.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Steam-Survey-June-2026\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam On Linux Usage Receded A Bit In June https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Steam-Survey-June-2026 Publish Date: 2026-07-01 20:23:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&image=steam_june_1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-284765","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\/284765"}],"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=284765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284767,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284765\/revisions\/284767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}