The Steam Deck pushes Linux past a new milestone: 3% of Steam gamers

As of October 2025, Linux has broken a new record among PC gamers. It's gaining new users... almost as fast as Windows is ...
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Linux breaches 3% of Steam's userbase for the first time, and no, it's not all SteamOS's doing

Linux breaches 3% of Steam users (3.05%), up 0.41% in October. Windows 11 at 63.57% (gaining); Windows 10 at 31.14% (down ...
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Windows 10 Still Hanging On Among PC Gamers on Steam

About 31% of Steam gamers still run Windows 10 despite Microsoft ending support. Linux, however, topped 3% for the first time in October.

Holiday season could delay Linux 6.19, Torvalds warns after smooth Linux 6.18-rc4

Linus Torvalds has published the fourth release candidate of Linux 6.18. However, a warning of delays to Linux 6.19 has also been issued.
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Lone developer shrinks Window 7 down to 69 MB, claims 'virtually nothing can run' but that it does actually boot

However, as Jacob unfortunately found out for himself at this year's Gamescom, Linux is definitely not for everybody either ...

AMD says that it’s not pulling driver support for older Radeon GPUs afterall

Last week, AMD released version 25.10.2 of its Adrenalin driver package for Radeon GPUs. It seemed like a relatively routine driver release with a typical list of bug fixes and game performance ...

Microsoft Fixes A Frustrating Windows Shutdown Bug That's Lingered For Years

The fix for this bug, which has persisted for about a decade, comes just after Microsoft ends Windows 10 support.