With the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for April 2026 now live, we’ve seen a decrease compared with the all-time high from last month but still a good trend.
The overall operating system stats are now:
Windows: 93.47%
Linux: 4.52%
macOS: 2.01%
We’ve done a little upgrade to our dedicated Steam Tracker page for the trends over time today. The old original trend line has been removed, and replaced with two trend lines: Linear and Exponential (so we satisfy everyone). They’re also added as actual labelled data sets, so on the main page they can be individually toggled. Here’s a snapshot:
According to the data these were the most popular Linux distributions for April 2026:
SteamOS Holo 64 bit 23.05% -1.43%
Arch Linux 64 bit 8.78% 0.00%
CachyOS 64 bit 8.37% +8.37%
Linux Mint 22.3 64 bit 7.47% +0.57%
0 64 bit 5.94% -11.66%
Bazzite 64 bit 4.74% +4.74%
Freedesktop SDK 25.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 4.16% +4.16%
Ubuntu Core 24 64 bit 3.58% 0.00%
Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS 64 bit 2.36% +2.36%
64 bit 1.90% -6.11%
Fedora Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) 64 bit 1.72% +1.72%
Ubuntu 25.10 64 bit 1.53% -0.14%
Linux Mint 22.2 64 bit 1.51% -0.39%
Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition) 64 bit 1.43% +1.43%
Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) 64 bit 1.40% +1.40%
Manjaro Linux 64 bit 1.42% -0.03%
Other 20.65% -4.99%
There’s still a bit of weirdness going on, as two distributions show up that aren’t actually named.
Source: Valve
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
