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PayPalValve have released the data for the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for June 2025, here's the usual GamingOnLinux run over it - with a little extra.
The operating system stats for June were:
- Windows 95.67% +0.22%
- Linux 2.57% -0.12%
- macOS 1.76% -0.09%
The drop for Linux can generally be associated with the increase in Simplified Chinese as a language option on Steam. Pretty much every time it increases, Linux overall drops. Same again here English dropped to 36.31% (-1.93%) and Simplified Chinese rose to 26.73% (+2.61%).
From our Steam Tracker here's the current course for Linux on Steam:
Those with an eagle eye (or who bother to look) at our Steam Tracker page might notice something entirely new. We're now tracking the Linux distro share on Steam over time here at GamingOnLinux too! I thought it might be interesting to see for trends for certain distributions. It's a manual process and will take time to backfill, but it's already proving to be quite interesting.
It looks a bit like this below, but far more interesting to look at properly as our charts are interactive:
Overall Linux distro share for June 2025:
- SteamOS Holo 64 bit 31.04% +0.09%
- Arch Linux 64 bit 10.49% +0.40%
- Linux Mint 22.1 64 bit 7.90% +0.14%
- Freedesktop SDK 24.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 6.62% -0.80%
- Ubuntu Core 22 64 bit 4.40% -0.23%
- Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS 64 bit 4.21% -0.09%
- CachyOS 64 bit 3.18% +0.64%
- Manjaro Linux 64 bit 2.46% +0.03%
- EndeavourOS Linux 64 bit 2.40% -0.04%
- Bazzite 42 (FROM Fedora Kinoite) 64 bit 2.37% +2.37%
- Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS 64 bit 2.06% -0.11%
- Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) 64 bit 1.98% -0.01%
- Other 20.87% -2.40%
Source: Valve
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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CatKiller 5 hours ago
Ehvis 5 hours ago
Tuxee 5 hours ago
Liam Dawe 5 hours ago
CatKiller 4 hours ago
Fun fact: I got the survey twice yesterday. First on my laptop, then on my desktop. I suppose Linux market share gonna blow up in July...It's a hardware survey, not a user survey. Two machines both being sampled is intended behaviour, regardless of who's using them.
CatKiller 4 hours ago
If you remove the local peaks and subtract the SteamOS values, then you get that approximately 1.6% are Linux desktop users. Which may not sound like a lot, but it's starting to approach MacOS level now and on the whole user base of Steam this is still a lot of people.
Desktop Linux with the Deck excluded has been at the same level as Mac for a couple of months already.
https://i.ibb.co/hRNbFjGW/Steam-Deck.png
It is so far my most favorite distro I ever used.
Ehvis 4 hours ago
Desktop Linux with the Deck excluded has been at the same level as Mac for a couple of months already.
https://i.ibb.co/hRNbFjGW/Steam-Deck.png
Your graph shows some interesting patterns.
For instance that the Linux desktop trend seems to drop right after Steam Deck released. This is not unreasonable since I expect quite a few Linux users to own one and some of them will simply have been counted as deck instead of desktop.
Deck growth also seems to have stalled for a while now (growing with Steam instead of faster). Liam's graph even shows that its share has been dropping steadily. So desktop usage is going up faster than on first inspection.
This is probably all somewhat speculative (especially the second observation) because I suspect that proper statistical tests would not show much confidence with the limited data set. This is made even more difficult when you realise that the "Steam Deck" graph is not an independent data set. It is likely that most deck users are also desktop users, interlinking the data and making proper analysis even more difficult.
Eike 5 minutes ago
I got the notification to participate on my Windows dual boot but not on my Nobara partition
Did you deny?
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