Valve released the data for the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for July 2025, showing the Linux user share making gains towards hitting 3%.
We continue to see the slow but steady increase in the overall Linux user share on the desktop, good news for the health of the platform as more people realise just how good Linux is now.
Here's the current operating system share on Steam for July 2025:
- Windows 95.23% -0.44%
- Linux 2.89% +0.32%
- macOS 1.88% +0.12%
If you take a look at our dedicated Steam Tracker page for the charts, we can see that steady increase.
Plus the breakdown of Linux distributions that were popular across July 2025 on Steam. This is possibly the most expansive list Valve has given for the distribution breakdown yet.
- SteamOS Holo 64 bit 28.31% -2.73%
- Arch Linux 64 bit 10.82% +0.33%
- Linux Mint 22.1 64 bit 7.83% -0.07%
- Freedesktop SDK 24.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 6.54% -0.08%
- Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS 64 bit 4.44% +0.23%
- CachyOS 64 bit 4.21% +1.03%
- Ubuntu Core 22 64 bit 4.17% -0.23%
- Bazzite 42 (FROM Fedora Kinoite) 64 bit 3.20% +0.83%
- Manjaro Linux 64 bit 2.46% 0.00%
- EndeavourOS Linux 64 bit 2.33% -0.07%
- Fedora Linux 42 (Workstation Edition) 64 bit 2.21% +2.21%
- Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS 64 bit 2.14% +0.08%
- Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) 64 bit 1.96% -0.02%
- Fedora Linux 42 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) 64 bit 1.79% +1.79%
- Other 17.58% -3.29%
And a snapshot again from our Steam Tracker with our combined distribution chart.
Source: Valve
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Eike 17 hours ago
Steam snap relies on gaming-graphics-core22 (which snaps kisak-fresh) and gtk-common-themes (the latter one is shared among several snaps).
So, where do the 32 bit libs come from that are needed to run the Steam client - let alone those that are needed to run 32 bit games?
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Tuxee 14 hours ago
So, where do the 32 bit libs come from that are needed to run the Steam client - let alone those that are needed to run 32 bit games?
There you have it:
/snap/steam/current/lib/i386-linux-gnu
/snap/steam/current/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
/snap/mesa-2404/current/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnuBoth the steam and mesa snap contain the needed 32bit libraries.
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Eike 13 hours ago
There you have it:
/snap/steam/current/lib/i386-linux-gnu
/snap/steam/current/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
/snap/mesa-2404/current/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
Both the steam and mesa snap contain the needed 32bit libraries.
So, where is the advantage? The native package pulls in the libraries - and so does the Snap package... Of course. They're needed. You don't really see the count of packages containing the libd as a disadvantage, do you?
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Tuxee 12 hours ago
The native package pulls in the libraries - and so does the Snap package... Of course. They're needed. You don't really see the count of packages containing the libd as a disadvantage, do you?
I do. Steam and Wine are the only applications on my system which require i386 libs. Wine straight from the repo frequently had some dependency issues (can't recall the specifics anymore). Wine is now tucked away in a Bottles flatpak along with the single required i386 package. I really like the crap being bundled up in single packages. In a broader sense it all belongs to the "proprietary sphere" of my system. And I just prefer my proprietary stuff in container formats.
And since we are just talking of it:
~$ sudo apt install steam-installer
Paketlisten werden gelesen… Fertig
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut… Fertig
Statusinformationen werden eingelesen… Fertig
Einige Pakete konnten nicht installiert werden. Das kann bedeuten, dass
Sie eine unmögliche Situation angefordert haben oder, wenn Sie die
Unstable-Distribution verwenden, dass einige erforderliche Pakete noch
nicht erstellt wurden oder Incoming noch nicht verlassen haben.
Die folgenden Informationen helfen Ihnen vielleicht, die Situation zu lösen:
Die folgenden Pakete haben unerfüllte Abhängigkeiten:
steam-installer : Hängt ab von: steam-libs-i386 (= 1:1.0.0.79~ds-2) ist aber nicht installierbar
E: Probleme können nicht korrigiert werden, Sie haben zurückgehaltene defekte Pakete.And to prevent some questions:
~$ fastfetch
.... gregor@threepio
.',:clooo: .:looooo:. ---------------
.;looooooooc .oooooooooo' OS: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS x86_64
.;looooool:,''. :ooooooooooc Host: X570M Pro4
;looool;. 'oooooooooo, Kernel: Linux 6.14.0-27-generic
;clool' .cooooooc. ,, Uptime: 4 hours, 2 mins
... ...... .:oo, Packages: 2340 (dpkg), 33 (flatpak), 34 (snap)
.;clol:,. .loooo' Shell: bash 5.2.21
:ooooooooo, 'ooool Display (DELL U2717D): 2560x1440 @ 60 Hz in 27" [External]
'ooooooooooo. loooo. Display (DELL U2717D): 2560x1440 @ 60 Hz in 27" [External]
'ooooooooool coooo. DE: GNOME 46.0
,loooooooc. .loooo. WM: Mutter (Wayland)
.,;;;'. ;ooooc WM Theme: Yaru
... ,ooool. Theme: Yaru [GTK2/3/4]
.cooooc. ..',,'. .cooo. Icons: Papirus [GTK2/3/4]
;ooooo:. ;oooooooc. :l. Font: IBM Plex Sans (11pt) [GTK2/3/4]
.coooooc,.. coooooooooo. Cursor: Yaru (24px)
.:ooooooolc:. .ooooooooooo' Terminal: tilix 1.9.6
.':loooooo; ,oooooooooc Terminal Font: IBM Plex Mono weight=450 (13pt)
..';::c' .;loooo:' CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X (24) @ 4.95 GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT [Discrete]
Memory: 8.72 GiB / 31.26 GiB (28%)
Swap: 0 B / 8.00 GiB (0%)
Disk (/): 93.19 GiB / 457.38 GiB (20%) - ext4
Local IP (enp5s0): 192.168.100.43/24
Locale: de_DE.UTF-8
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