Linux share remains above 2% in the November 2024 Steam Survey thanks to Steam Deck

Valve have released the latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey for November 2024. Here's the details from it. The good news, for Linux users, is that Linux remains above 2% again overall.

Interestingly though, for last month Valve actually adjusted the numbers at some point in the month for the languages used on Steam and the Linux distribution list, so the previous article and our dedicated Steam Tracker page were corrected with the newer numbers. But the overall platform percentage remained the same.

Here's the overall platform stats for November 2024:

• Windows 96.56% -0.05%
• Linux 2.03% +0.03%
• macOS 1.41%+0.02%

Seems like things just going back to normal, with the Simplified Chinese language option continuing to drop for three months in a row which always causes a change in the Linux numbers.

To get an interactive chart visit the Steam Tracker page.

For just Linux here's the most popular distributions:

• SteamOS Holo (Steam Deck) 64 bit 36.63% -0.28%
• Arch Linux 64 bit 9.16% +0.30%
• Freedesktop SDK 24.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 4.99% +4.99%
• Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS 64 bit 4.79% -0.01%
• Linux Mint 22 64 bit 4.49% +0.25%
• Ubuntu Core 22 64 bit 3.76% -0.02%
• Manjaro Linux 64 bit 2.99% -0.04%
• Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) 64 bit 2.52% +2.52%
• Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS 64 bit 2.49% -0.24%
• Other 28.18% +1.38%

See more on the Steam survey.

I've noted a couple dates in my calendar to go back and check for any adjustments again later this month.