It finally happened. Linux gamers on Steam as of the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for October 2025 have crossed over the elusive 3% mark.

Free Windows 10 support ended for most people this past month, and the trend line of Linux usage has been quite clear leading up to this, as people prepared for the inevitable. An increase in Linux usage is also correlated to a drop in Chinese players, which did happen this month a little bit, but Linux usage is also trending up when filtering for English only. It’s worth noting that for all the official support Macs ever saw in gaming, they never represented anything better than about 5% of the market.

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    SteamOS Holo 64 bit - 27.18% (-0.47%)

    Arch Linux 64 bit - 10.32% (-0.66%)

    Linux Mint 22.2 64 bit - 6.65% (+6.65%)

    CachyOS 64 bit - 6.01% (+1.32%)

    Ubuntu Core 22 64 bit - 4.55% (+0.55%)

    Freedesktop SDK 25.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64

    bit - 4.29% (+4.29%)

    Bazzite 64 bit - 4.24% (+4.24%)

    Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS 64 bit - 3.70% (+3.70%)

    Linux Mint 22.1 64 bit - 2.56% (-5.65%)

    EndeavourOS Linux 64 bit - 2.32% (-0.08%)

    Freedesktop SDK 24.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64

    bit - 2.31% (-3.98%)

    Fedora Linux 42 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)

    64 bit - 2.12% (+0.19%)

    Manjaro Linux 64 bit - 2.04% (-0.31%)

    Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS 64 bit - 1.93% (-0.04%)

    Fedora Linux 42 (Workstation Edition) 64 bit - 1.75% (-0.43%)

    Other - 18.04% (-4.28%)