Linux user share hits a multi-year high on Steam for May 2025
The Linux user share on Steam has been slowly but steadily trending upwards, with May 2025 showing the highest point in years. At least since 2018, this is the highest it has ever been in a long time. When you take into account how Steam is always growing, it’s showing that the amount of Linux users on Steam continues to grow nicely too.
Overall user share for May 2025:
- Windows 95.45% -0.65%
- Linux 2.69% +0.42%
- macOS 1.85% +0.23%
See more on our interactive Steam Tracker page.
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%
One likely reason is how Simplified Chinese as a language option on Steam went down for May 2025, which does usually bring the Linux numbers up too. Linux with Steam in that region just isn’t particularly popular.
Source: Valve
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
