The Daily Populous Thursday February 6th, 2025 evening edition
Authored by gamingonlinux.com and submitted by alex040512

Valve have released the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for January 2025, showing both Linux and macOS having a dip with a rise of Windows 10.

Check out the interactive chart on our Steam Tracker page.

Switching over to the Linux side, these are the most popular distributions, which also includes the Flatpak and Snap versions of Steam:

SteamOS Holo 64 bit 34.93% -1.54%

Arch Linux 64 bit 9.41% -0.29%

Freedesktop SDK 24.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 6.01% +0.28%

Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS 64 bit 4.84% +0.05%

Linux Mint 22 64 bit 4.55% -0.07%

Ubuntu Core 22 64 bit 4.13% +0.34%

"Manjaro Linux" 64 bit 2.73% -0.23%

Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) 64 bit 2.47% +2.47%

stranded on February 6th, 2025 at 11:20 UTC »

the year on Linux incoming

TheLivingDexter on February 6th, 2025 at 10:03 UTC »

The overall numbers:

Windows 96.55% +0.45%

Linux 2.06% 2.06 -0.23%

macOS 1.40% -0.21%

f_ranz1224 on February 6th, 2025 at 09:00 UTC »

Steamdeck doing the heavy lifting on this i assume