Valve released the data for the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for July 2025, showing the Linux user share making gains towards hitting 3%.
We continue to see the slow but steady increase in the overall Linux user share on the desktop, good news for the health of the platform as more people realise just how good Linux is now.
Here’s the current operating system share on Steam for July 2025:
Windows 95.23% -0.44%
Linux 2.89% +0.32%
macOS 1.88% +0.12%
If you take a look at our dedicated Steam Tracker page for the charts, we can see that steady increase.
Plus the breakdown of Linux distributions that were popular across July 2025 on Steam. This is possibly the most expansive list Valve has given for the distribution breakdown yet.
SteamOS Holo 64 bit 28.31% -2.73%
Arch Linux 64 bit 10.82% +0.33%
Linux Mint 22.1 64 bit 7.83% -0.07%
Freedesktop SDK 24.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 6.54% -0.08%
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS 64 bit 4.44% +0.23%
CachyOS 64 bit 4.21% +1.03%
Ubuntu Core 22 64 bit 4.17% -0.23%
Bazzite 42 (FROM Fedora Kinoite) 64 bit 3.20% +0.83%
Manjaro Linux 64 bit 2.46% 0.00%
EndeavourOS Linux 64 bit 2.33% -0.07%
Fedora Linux 42 (Workstation Edition) 64 bit 2.21% +2.21%
Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS 64 bit 2.14% +0.08%
Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) 64 bit 1.96% -0.02%
Fedora Linux 42 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) 64 bit 1.79% +1.79%
Other 17.58% -3.29%
And a snapshot again from our Steam Tracker with our combined distribution chart.
Source: Valve
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
