Valve have released the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for January 2025, showing both Linux and macOS having a dip with a rise of Windows 10.
The overall numbers:
- Windows 96.55% +0.45%
- Linux 2.06% 2.06 -0.23%
- macOS 1.40% -0.21%
Check out the interactive chart on our Steam Tracker page.
Switching over to the Linux side, these are the most popular distributions, which also includes the Flatpak and Snap versions of Steam:
- SteamOS Holo 64 bit 34.93% -1.54%
- Arch Linux 64 bit 9.41% -0.29%
- Freedesktop SDK 24.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 6.01% +0.28%
- Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS 64 bit 4.84% +0.05%
- Linux Mint 22 64 bit 4.55% -0.07%
- Ubuntu Core 22 64 bit 4.13% +0.34%
- "Manjaro Linux" 64 bit 2.73% -0.23%
- Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) 64 bit 2.47% +2.47%
- Other 30.93% +3.46%
Source: Steam
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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pleasereadthemanual 3 hours ago
Debian, huh?
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Fester_Mudd 3 hours ago
So Ubuntu actually has 8.61% and 13,16% if Mint is counted (Mint is in practice Ubuntu and even using their repositories).
Why these Ubuntu's (core / snap and regular) are separated there makes no much sense.
Why these Ubuntu's (core / snap and regular) are separated there makes no much sense.
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