Linux Hits 3% On Steam’s October 2025 {Hardware} Survey

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Each month, Valve sends out a survey to a few of its customers to gauge what the most well-liked working methods and configurations are from accounts on Steam. It is attention-grabbing to see it as effectively, displaying the most well-liked CPUs, GPUs, working methods, and even VR headsets and resolutions. This additionally seems on the Steam Deck, permitting them to incorporate our handhelds within the survey. Now that it is October, we now have a model new survey version to take a look at, and to my shock, Linux has handed the three% mark!

In what seems to be the primary time, Linux as an working system has handed the three% mark of customers within the survey. Particularly, it’s at 3.05%, with notable features particularly with Bazzite, Ubuntu, and Mint. Curiously, SteamOS went down a bit bit, however even nonetheless, the features had been sufficient to deliver Linux general up! It nonetheless appears SteamOS is the most well-liked Linux OS proper now, although, with a 27.18%, together with the Deck’s customized GPU being the most well-liked on Linux.

The survey additionally exhibits off the most well-liked GPU general, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, together with the Meta Quest 3 being the most well-liked VR headset, 16GB RAM as the most well-liked system RAM, and 1920×1080 as the most well-liked show decision. I’m additionally stunned that 6-core CPUs are extra in style than 8-core, however it’s solely by about 3%.

You may take a look at the survey for your self over on Steam.

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