Linux has surpassed 5% desktop market share in the US (5.03% in June 2025), per StatCounter, driven by privacy concerns, rising costs of Windows/macOS, and user-friendly distros like Ubuntu. Community celebrates amid gaming and enterprise boosts, though challenges like software gaps persist; analysts eye 7% by 2027.
They count based on useragent info from accesses to websites using statcounter analytics.
Presumably steamdecks are heavily underrepresented in that, because I can’t imagine more than a quarter of steamdeck users are even going into desktop mode, much less launching a browser