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.

  • Deestan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I have a Windows laptop specifically for gaming, but I end up using my Linux coding laptop for games in the end.

    It’s less hassle figuring out how to enable nvidia drivers on xorg in GNU linux so that I csn use Proton emulation than to deal with this weeks clusterfuck of windows update trying to make me turn on ads and spying and trick me into using a microsoft.com account to log in.

    I am not joking.

    The windows still has some dust on it from when I did some house renovations months ago, because I haven’t been bothered to use it.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Having been gaming on Linux for the past 10 years and facing basically 0 issues, I can also affirmatively I don’t understand the attachment to windows. I get it if you need specifically word or excel. and I guess if you’ve got kids who want to play fortnite.

      • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
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        2 months ago

        It’s mostly convenience. They know it works, so they keep using it.

        Luckily Microsoft is making it inconvenient to continue using Windows.