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 11 hours ago
Debian, huh?
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Fester_Mudd 11 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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So Ubuntu actually has 8.61% and 13,16% if Mint is counted (Mint is in practice Ubuntu and even using their repositories).Well, and it is still "just one" Ubuntu version here. I suspect that the rest of Ubuntus are hidden within the rest of those 30.93%
Why these Ubuntu's (core / snap and regular) are separated there makes no much sense.
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Why these Ubuntu's (core / snap and regular) are separated there makes no much sense.You could be using the snap version of Steam on any distro. Same as flatpak.
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Mint is not Ubuntu, thanks awfully.
Meanwhile, waitaminute, Windows 10 is rising? How does that work? Are we talking rise in Chinese language (which I'm imagining is more likely to use probably-pirated Windows 10)?
Meanwhile, waitaminute, Windows 10 is rising? How does that work? Are we talking rise in Chinese language (which I'm imagining is more likely to use probably-pirated Windows 10)?
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Meanwhile, waitaminute, Windows 10 is rising? How does that work? Are we talking rise in Chinese language (which I'm imagining is more likely to use probably-pirated Windows 10)?Recall that last month was iffy (with Linux GPUs adding up to 132%, for example). Long-term trends are much more useful than the single-month delta value.
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Caldathras 4 hours ago
Mint is not Ubuntu, thanks awfully.Absolutely! Anyone who's actually used Mint for any length of time and/or been involved with its community would know this.
Last edited by Caldathras on 3 Feb 2025 at 6:50 pm UTC
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Bazzite numbers would be interesting... I heard of quite a few people who switched in the last time to Bazzite because of it's ease of use and stability.
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