Linux user share on Steam rose to 2.69% in May 2025 — the highest level recorded since at least 2018. GamingOnLinux reports: Overall user share for May 2025:
– Windows 95.45% -0.65%
– Linux 2.69% +0.42%
– macOS 1.85% +0.23%
Even with SteamOS 3 now being a little more widely available, the rise was not from SteamOS directly. Filtering to just the Linux numbers gives us these most popular distributions:
– SteamOS Holo 64 bit 30.95% -2.83%
– Arch Linux 64 bit 10.09% +0.64%
– Linux Mint 22.1 64 bit 7.76% +1.56%
– Freedesktop SDK 24.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 7.42% +1.01%
– Ubuntu Core 22 64 bit 4.63% +0.01%
– Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS 64 bit 4.30% -0.14%
– CachyOS 64 bit 2.54% +2.54%
– EndeavourOS Linux 64 bit 2.44% -0.02%
– Manjaro Linux 64 bit 2.43% -0.18%
– Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS 64 bit 2.17% -0.06%
– Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) 64 bit 1.99% -0.28%
– Other 23.27% -2.27%
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