Survey of Steamy it is renewed again to provide information about the operating systems and hardware used by users of the platform. It’s a fairly inaccurate gauge that only covers Valve’s own ecosystem, ignoring other platforms like GOG and the Epic Games Store, but it’s the least bad thing we know about the current state of PC gaming.

Once again, we find Windows overwhelmingly dominating as it gained 96.21% share last May. Windows 10 continues to lose ground compared to its successor, taking 52.23% (50.35% of the total) quotas within Microsoft’s own ecosystem Windows 11 rose to 47.78% (46.08% of total). Windows 11 continues to be slow to gain traction, a situation that is mainly due to its high feature level requirements in the official terms and the complaints it continues to receive about its performance.

Windows lost a 0.55% share of the overall numbers compared to April, which was benefited by its main rivals on the desktop. macOS gained a 0.12% share to 1.47% and Linux gained quite a bit by its standards, rising 0.42% to reach 2.32%clearly standing above the 2% barrier.

The rise of Linux is largely due to the Steam Deck, a portable console that achieved relative success after selling millions of units. This has a lot of merit considering that the operating system present by default is not Windows, but SteamOS 3, a standard GNU/Linux based on the popular Arch Linux distribution.

Steam Deck’s dominance among Steam Linux users is so overwhelming that the system it uses accounts for 45.34% of the share.. This means that practically every second user of the Linux version of the platform uses the Valve console. The rest of the systems mentioned, since Valve counts systems and not distributions, are Arch Linux with 7.90%, Steam Flatpak (Freedesktop SDK 23.08) repackaged with 6.05%, Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS with 4.76%, Linux Mint 21.3 with 4.23%, Manjaro Linux with 3.18%, Steam Snap repack (Ubuntu Core 22 64 bit) with 2.62% and Pop!_OS 22.04 TLS with 2.57%.

In Windows, for many years, what some called as Windeldia, i.e. a combination of Windows, Intel and NVIDIA. On the other hand, and as a result of the Steam Deck’s relative success, Linux has become AMD territory Because this brand covers 75% share in processors compared to Intel’s 27.22%. This carries over to the graphics with a clear Radeon preference as the drivers are pre-installed in the system and offer a higher degree of intent than what NVIDIA provides. There seems to be a calculation error on Valve’s side, as the sum of CPU quotas gives a result above 100%, which doesn’t make sense in this context.

In short, Windows 11 continues to gradually gain ground on Windows 10, and Linux has seen a significant rise on the back of the Steam Deck. However, as we said at the beginning, the Steam survey is a rather imprecise meter, leading to large fluctuations from one month to the next. Linux clearly exceeded 2% last May, but may stay well below that percentage next month.