Valve released the statistics from the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for November 2025, which shows once again that Linux use is trending nicely upwards.
I love how diverse the Linux distros breakdown is. SteamOS of course, but also Arch, Mint, CachyOS, Bazzite and so on. Choice. And because this is open source software work done by one community potentially helps all others. It’s fucking beautiful 🥲
I think from now on Linux will be hitting all time highs every time you check
It’s only up from here
2026 year of the Linux desktop?
Every year is the year of the Linux desktop. Always had been.
Always has been
If it isn’t, it never will be.
Linux has everything going for it in '26, people pissed with Microsoft, Apple still not doing anything in the space, no one cares about CoD any more, and Valve have their computer coming out.
A graph that goes up constantly (even if it’s slowly) is always at an all time high.
This one won’t peak for a few years. So a new all time high every month until then.
Also new here. So from what I can tell. You really shouldn’t mix a windows steam library with the Linux steam library? Correct? I mean to avoid all issues. I have it running in a separate space.
It’s best practice to keep it separate, and that mostly just has to do with how the different file systems are handled.
This. The problem is Windows can’t read ext4 or Btrfs, and though Linux can handle NTFS, it isn’t great.
When I was first switching to Linux a few years ago, I did have a shared library using NTFS. It mostly just worked, but the occasional game would refuse to start, and I had no issues once I was no longer using NTFS.
There is an installable btrfs driver for Windows. No idea how trustworthy it is, though.
And yeah, accessing Steam games on an NTFS partition from Linux is a recipe for permission issues. Just don’t.
Yah. I split the drive so we will see how it goes. But memory is cheap. I’m not messing around with game saves that could possibly take away hours of my progress.
I think you mean storage. Memory is, at the moment, oddly expensive.
The only thing stopping me is I can’t figure out how to remap the side buttons on my razer MMO mouse in Linux.
Try Polychromatic
I have. That allows for control of lighting, but doesn’t do key mapping/profiles.
