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With the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for April 2026 now live, we've seen a decrease compared with the all-time high from last month but still a good trend.

The overall operating system stats are now:

  • Windows: 93.47%
  • Linux: 4.52%
  • macOS: 2.01%

We've done a little upgrade to our dedicated Steam Tracker page for the trends over time today. The old original trend line has been removed, and replaced with two trend lines: Linear and Exponential (so we satisfy everyone). They're also added as actual labelled data sets, so on the main page they can be individually toggled. Here's a snapshot:

According to the data these were the most popular Linux distributions for April 2026:

  • SteamOS Holo 64 bit 23.05% -1.43%
  • Arch Linux 64 bit 8.78% 0.00%
  • CachyOS 64 bit 8.37% +8.37%
  • Linux Mint 22.3 64 bit 7.47% +0.57%
  • 0 64 bit 5.94% -11.66%
  • Bazzite 64 bit 4.74% +4.74%
  • Freedesktop SDK 25.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 4.16% +4.16%
  • Ubuntu Core 24 64 bit 3.58% 0.00%
  • Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS 64 bit 2.36% +2.36%
  • 64 bit 1.90% -6.11%
  • Fedora Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) 64 bit 1.72% +1.72%
  • Ubuntu 25.10 64 bit 1.53% -0.14%
  • Linux Mint 22.2 64 bit 1.51% -0.39%
  • Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition) 64 bit 1.43% +1.43%
  • Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) 64 bit 1.40% +1.40%
  • Manjaro Linux 64 bit 1.42% -0.03%
  • Other 20.65% -4.99%

There's still a bit of weirdness going on, as two distributions show up that aren't actually named.

Source: Valve

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TheSHEEEP 2 hours ago
Quoting: jjaksicSteam Survey is useless garbage. It's not humanly possible to do polling and statistics any worse than this. Please ignore it, it's just worthless random noise junk not worth anyone's 2 seconds of attention (except maybe to teach a toddler how not to do statistics).
You always this cheery or is it your birthday which caused you to just glow with joy and spread some love?

Last edited by TheSHEEEP on 3 May 2026 at 8:34 am UTC
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