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Linux User Share Hits a Multi-Year High On Steam For May 2025

Linux.Slashdot.org - Mon, 06/02/2025 - 17:00
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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