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Valve amended the Steam survey for December 2025 - Linux actually hit another all-time high (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by cm0002@literature.cafe to c/linux@programming.dev

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Initially Valve's Steam Hardware & Software Survey for December 2025 showed Linux at 3.19%, but they appear to have amended it with a nice boost for Linux. There were a few issues I spotted like languages and such not adding up, but now they do so it appears there's a few corrections that were made to it this month.

Now the latest figures from Valve show for December 2025:

Windows: 94.23%
Linux: 3.58%
macOS: 2.18%

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[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

could've been a flawed survey like this one but Valve never fixed it?

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean there's isn't anything to fix. Could just be an unlucky month in selecting people for the survey. As the other person said, it does seem to be a statistical anomaly or actual error. But that is still a pretty massive dip for either of those two options. In and of itself also kinda statistically unlikely, hence my question.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The December survey was bugged, March could've been similar but never fixed. Before this fix, December had numbers that were adding up to more than 100% so it was a bug not just bad luck, they didn't even redo the survey they just reprocessed the same data.