Steam Survey for April 2025 results available, Linux sits at 2.27%

Valve released the Steam Hardware & Software Survey results for April 2025, so here’s your usual round-up of where things stand right now.

For Linux in April, it’s nearly flat with a small dip now those with Simplified Chinese as their language have settled down in the stats, although there’s a small overall bump again in the numbers for Simplified Chinese which is usually what causes Linux to drop.

Overall operating system use on Steam for April:

• Windows 96.10%
• Linux 2.27%
• macOS 1.62%

From our dedicated Steam Tracker page here’s how it looks over time

The most popular Linux distributions listed by Valve are:

• SteamOS Holo 64 bit (Steam Deck and others) 33.78% -0.70%
• Arch Linux 64 bit 9.45% -0.23%
• Freedesktop SDK 24.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 6.41% +0.15%
• Linux Mint 22.1 64 bit 6.20% +0.89%
• Ubuntu Core 22 (Steam Snap) 64 bit 4.62% +0.23%
• Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS 64 bit 4.44% +0.26%
• Manjaro Linux 64 bit 2.61% -0.05%
• EndeavourOS Linux 64 bit 2.46% +0.06%
• Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) 64 bit 2.27% -0.08%
• Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS 64 bit 2.23% +0.02%
• Other 25.54% -0.53%

Source: Valve

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.