Linux usage on Steam hits a record high for the second month in a row

After yet passing the 3 percent people successful October, Linux usage connected Steam has peaked again successful the November Steam Hardware & Software Survey. As of past month, Linux users accounted for 3.2 percent of each Steam users. That pales successful examination to Windows usage (94.79 percent), but it’s inactive a boost from October and marks a caller all-time precocious for Linux usage connected Steam. 

Unsurprisingly, Valve’s ain Linux organisation is the astir popular, with 26.4 percent of Linux users moving SteamOS Holo. Arch Linux, Linux Mint, CachyOS, Bazzite, and Ubuntu trailed down with shares of astir 5 to 10 percent each. 

Bazzite, a gaming-focused Linux distribution, saw 1 of the biggest boosts successful users this month, on with Debian and the Flatpak mentation of Steam (which is displayed separately from autochthonal installations of Steam connected Linux). While you tin technically (try to) enactment Valve’s SteamOS connected a customized gaming PC, Bazzite is often recommended arsenic the champion alternate to it, which mightiness explicate wherefore it saw peculiarly beardown maturation this month. Likewise, the Flatpak mentation of Steam is often easier to install, truthful the maturation determination could beryllium from a question of caller Linux users. 

It’s hard to accidental for sure, but the two-month boost successful Linux usage connected Steam mightiness person thing to bash with Windows 10 reaching end-of-life connected October 14th. Most of those users look to person gone to Windows 11, but it looks similar astatine slightest a fewer switched to Linux instead. The gaming acquisition connected Linux has improved importantly implicit caller years, mostly acknowledgment to the Steam Deck, which runs connected a mentation of Linux. Valve’s Linux compatibility layer, Proton, and the popularity of the Steam Deck person helped grow crippled enactment connected Linux, though anti-cheat remains an issue.