Steam Hardware & Software Survey for June 2025 is out – here’s the latest for Linux and SteamOS
Valve 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.
