Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey

The Steam Hardware & Software Survey is out for October 2024, and the Linux user share has gone back up again to exactly 2%.

Overall:

• Windows: 96.61% -0.23%
• Linux 2.00% +0.13%
• macOS: 1.39% +0.10%

Quite likely we're seeing the drop of Windows because the English language share overall went up by 8.09%, with Simplified Chinese dropping by 1%. We generally see the Linux share drop when Simplified Chinese on Steam rises, which it had done for two months in a row. So this seems like things going back to a more normal position.

All of the data can be seen on our dedicated Steam Tracker.

On the Linux side here's the most used distributions:

• SteamOS Holo 64 bit (Steam Deck) 36.79% -2.41%
• Arch Linux 64 bit 9.54% +0.88%
• Freedesktop SDK 23.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 6.16% +0.13%
• Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS 64 bit 5.10% +1.07%
• Linux Mint 22 64 bit 3.96% +0.23%
• Manjaro Linux 64 bit 3.33% +0.29%
• Ubuntu Core 22 64 bit (Steam Snap) 3.06% -0.24%
• Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS 64 bit 2.92% +2.92%
• Linux Mint 21.3 64 bit 2.89% +0.17%
• Other 27.43% -1.84%

See more on the Steam survey.