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Linux shoots back up the Steam Survey for March 2025 with Simplified Chinese dropping

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Valve have released the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for March 2025, and as expected with the Simplified Chinese language dropping the Linux stats have shot back up.

Last month we saw quite a sharp drop for the Linux stats, which coincided with Simplified Chinese once again rising as the language choice on Steam. This is something that happens now and then.

For March 2025 the overall operating system stats are:

  • Windows 96.10% -1.48%
  • Linux 2.33% +0.88%
  • macOS 1.58% +0.61%

As seen on our dedicated Steam Tracker page:

The most popular Linux distributions shown on Steam are:

  • SteamOS Holo 64 bit 34.48% -0.19%
  • Arch Linux 64 bit 9.68% -0.02%
  • Freedesktop SDK 24.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 6.26% +0.10%
  • Linux Mint 22.1 64 bit 5.31% +0.78%
  • Ubuntu Core 22 64 bit (Steam Snap) 4.39% +0.18%
  • Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS 64 bit 4.18% +4.18%
  • Manjaro Linux 64 bit 2.66% +2.66%
  • EndeavourOS Linux 64 bit 2.40% +2.40%
  • Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) 64 bit 2.35% +2.35%
  • Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS 64 bit 2.21% +2.21%
  • Other 26.07% -11.10%

Source: Valve

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Tags: Steam Deck, Steam, SteamOS, Survey, Survey Results, Valve
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ToddL a day ago
My guess is CachyOS/Other. You could look into Steam client => help => system information, I'd guess they use the same source there?
@Eike
I did what you mentioned and it turns out that it shows up as CachyOS
Yeti 16 hours ago
Also, I wonder, does Bazzite Deck on my ROG Ally count as Holo, Fedora, or Bazzite on its own?

It would show up under FreeDesktop (flatpak) since Bazzite ships Steam as a system flatpak.
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