Linux has gotten a 3% usage bump in a month, latest Steam hardware survey suggests - though, it’s still miles off Windows… Only 92.33% to go!
The latest Steam hardware survey cites Linux as accounting for over 5% of the install base. That’s not a lot, and comes with the caveat of Valve’s info gathering not being bulletproof, but it ia a good chunk higher than the OS’s mark for the first two months of 2026.
Taking a look at the March survey, it puts Linux at 5.33% of the install base, a jump of 3.10% from 2.23%, which it was at in the February survey. Though, Linux’s trajectory in these surveys isn’t a line that’s going straight up, with the January survey putting it at 3.38%. To trace the line back even further, December’s number was 3.58% and November’s was 3.20%.