Valve released the Steam Hardware & Software Survey results for April 2025, so here's your usual round-up of where things stand right now.
For Linux in April, it's nearly flat with a small dip now those with Simplified Chinese as their language have settled down in the stats, although there's a small overall bump again in the numbers for Simplified Chinese which is usually what causes Linux to drop.
Overall operating system use on Steam for April:
- Windows 96.10%
- Linux 2.27%
- macOS 1.62%
From our dedicated Steam Tracker page here's how it looks over time
The most popular Linux distributions listed by Valve are:
- SteamOS Holo 64 bit (Steam Deck and others) 33.78% -0.70%
- Arch Linux 64 bit 9.45% -0.23%
- Freedesktop SDK 24.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 6.41% +0.15%
- Linux Mint 22.1 64 bit 6.20% +0.89%
- Ubuntu Core 22 (Steam Snap) 64 bit 4.62% +0.23%
- Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS 64 bit 4.44% +0.26%
- Manjaro Linux 64 bit 2.61% -0.05%
- EndeavourOS Linux 64 bit 2.46% +0.06%
- Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) 64 bit 2.27% -0.08%
- Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS 64 bit 2.23% +0.02%
- Other 25.54% -0.53%
Source: Valve
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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wytrabbit 11 hours ago
So for English only on Steam we're at 5.19%, interesting!
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I wonder why the numbers get so much . . . bouncier, starting late in 2022.
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R Daneel Olivaw 7 hours ago
Interesting not to see fedora on there ... this is apparently what comes from protondb:
https://boilingsteam.com/linux-distros-in-march-2025-a-new-challenger-emerges/
which is mostly similar, but with the notable difference of fedora?
https://boilingsteam.com/linux-distros-in-march-2025-a-new-challenger-emerges/
which is mostly similar, but with the notable difference of fedora?
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CatKiller 7 hours ago
I wonder why the numbers get so much . . . bouncier, starting late in 2022.They stopped going back later in the month to correct for Chinese overcount.
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Linas 1 hour ago
I do wonder how are they sampling Steam OS stats? I would imagine most Steam Decks are in Big Picture mode basically all the time, and the survey only pops up in Desktop mode. Wouldn't that skew it heavily against a Steam Deck ever being included in the survey?
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