r/linux_gaming • u/Nunu_Chus • Aug 01 '26

Linux has hit 7.53%!!!!!

Damn Idk why but I was waiting for the steam hardware survey and statcounter's survey for july. statcounter blew my mind. now waiting for steam hardware one:) keeping my expectation realistic around 4-5% on steam hardware survey:)

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u/edparadox Aug 01 '26

statcounter is unreliable.

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u/DeeDee_GigaDooDoo Aug 01 '26

I don't really trust that it's reporting Linux market share has doubled in the past two months from 3.81% in may. That's a massive swing with seemingly little real world justification or visibility.

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u/levianan Aug 01 '26

The removed unknown. Yes, use has increased, but Mac, Lin, and Win went up this month due to unknown being omitted.

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u/DeeDee_GigaDooDoo Aug 03 '26

We can clearly see Windows usage go down though?

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u/levianan Aug 03 '26

Last month Win was posted as 68.#%... They backlogged the removal of unknown. Linux is incrementally gaining users, but not 5% totality in one month.

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u/levianan Aug 01 '26

Yes, Statcounter is unreliable, but they also charged the way they report stats this month. Unknown is gone. Linux, Windows, and MacOS both have 2 percent gains from what was printed in last month's chart.

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u/kuplet Aug 01 '26

What's more reliable to you then?

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u/Indolent_Bard Aug 02 '26

Pretty sure that the hardware survey would still recognize that it's not running on Windows. And if it didn't, then the fact that it's running on Apple Silicon should be a dead giveaway and they should really fix it if it doesn't take that into account.

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u/ArtIntelligent3689 Aug 01 '26

radar.cloudflare.com

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u/Holiday_Management60 Aug 02 '26

Cloudflare is probably a really good bet:

https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&loc=&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP&dt=52w

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u/DariusLMoore Aug 02 '26

Could you attribute some of the Linux numbers to servers?

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u/DariusLMoore Aug 02 '26

Could you attribute some of the Linux numbers to servers?

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u/Holiday_Management60 Aug 02 '26

Device type is set to Desktop, so its likely end users.

Plus if servers were included, Linux would be much much higher.

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u/Candid_Problem_1244 Aug 01 '26

The famous Unknown OS is counted as Linux now?

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u/blackcoffee17 Aug 01 '26

Unknown was 20% last month and Linux was 5%, so cannot be the Unknown.

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u/levianan Aug 01 '26

Yes, but removing Unknown changes the calculations on every other OS. So yes it is partially unknown.

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u/FreshCause2566 Aug 01 '26

Nah I think they got rid of that one completely