Valve have now released the Steam Hardware & Software Survey results for August 2025, showing the overall Linux share has dropped. Sadly, that 3% people were hoping for is another month away, but we'll hit it eventually going by the trends overall (especially if we see a proper SteamOS Steam Machine again). Be sure to check out last month's data for comparison.
The overall operating system share:
- Windows 95.59% +0.36%
- Linux 2.64% -0.25%
- macOS 1.77% -0.11%
The Linux share from our dedicated Steam Tracker page over time:
And the Linux distribution share over time (still working on adding older data here):
Be sure to check the interactive charts on our Steam Tracker.
See below for the breakdown of the popular Linux distributions on Steam for August 2025, with Valve's own SteamOS continuing its slow downwards trend. Which is interesting considering overall the Linux numbers gradually trending upwards showing there's plenty of users flowing into Desktop Linux and systems like Bazzite on other handhelds.
Worth noting that Bazzite this month doesn't have the version number listed, which it did in previous months which is why it says it gained the whole 2.21% for August, but it's actually down from 3.20% last month.
- SteamOS Holo 64 bit 27.65% -0.66%
- Arch Linux 64 bit 10.98% +0.16%
- Linux Mint 22.1 64 bit 8.21% +0.38%
- Freedesktop SDK 24.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 6.29% -0.25%
- CachyOS 64 bit 4.69% +0.48%
- Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS 64 bit 2.83% -1.61%
- Ubuntu Core 22 64 bit 4.00% -0.17%
- Manjaro Linux 64 bit 2.35% -0.11%
- EndeavourOS Linux 64 bit 2.40% +0.07%
- Fedora Linux 42 (Workstation Edition) 64 bit 2.18% -0.03%
- Bazzite (FROM Fedora Atomic) 64 bit 2.21% +2.21%
- Fedora Linux 42 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) 64 bit 1.93% +0.14%
- Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS 64 bit 1.97% -0.17%
- Other 22.32% +4.74%
Source: Valve Survey
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Sadly, that 3% people were hoping for is another month away, but we'll hit it eventually going by the trends overall.Now that Valve is heavily invested in Linux gaming, there's no way to ever hit those 3% I fear…
Maybe we'll reach Alyx% though?
Liam Dawe 15 hours ago
Last edited by Aron on 2 Sep 2025 at 7:26 pm UTC
My brains first impression was that Windows 95 had .59 and was up .36% XD
And I did let them count all... desktop PC, VR notebook, old VR notebook, surface pro tablet, old surface pro tablet, LCD deck, OLED deck, rog ally, legion go... so 0.001% has for sure been me! And no, I don't have a problem... that stuff just accumulated over years
Haven't bought new hardware in the last two years. I guess the Legion Go (2023) was the latest aquisition, and that's already 2 years ago.
Unfortunately my VR headset wasn't detected in the survey each time I had it attached. No idea why.
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