The Steam Hardware & Software Survey for July 2026 is out now and going by the current data, Linux has managed to jump back just over 4%.
Here’s the current overall operating system share:
- Windows – 93.67%
- Linux – 4.01%
- macOS – 2.32%
Oddly, some of the comparisons look like they against May’s numbers not June, so we may end up seeing some corrections from Valve. We’ll keep an eye on it.
The usual snapshot from our dedicated Steam Tracker page:
And the most popular Linux distributions for July 2026:
- SteamOS Holo 64 bit 22.24% -0.59%
- CachyOS 64 bit 14.31% +0.28%
- Arch Linux 64 bit 8.29% -0.57%
- Linux Mint 22.3 64 bit 8.12% +0.22%
- Bazzite 64 bit 7.73% +0.45%
- Freedesktop SDK 25.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 5.37% +0.01%
- Fedora Linux 44 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) 64 bit 2.92% +0.40%
- Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 64 bit 2.92% +0.35%
- Ubuntu Core 24 64 bit 2.88% -0.20%
- Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS 64 bit 2.78% +0.05%
- Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) 64 bit 1.99% +0.03%
- EndeavourOS Linux 64 bit 1.69% -0.08%
- Fedora Linux 44 (Workstation Edition) 64 bit 1.66% +0.13%
- Nobara Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) 64 bit 1.64% -0.53%
- Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS 64 bit 1.53% +0.01%
- Other 13.91% +0.02%
The survey shows that 1920 x 1080 is still the top resolution, by quite a wide margin too at 51.10%. The next most popular being 2560 x 1440 at 21.46%. We’re also seeing 32 GB RAM (36.93%) closing in on 16 GB (40.97%).
🌐 External Sources: store.steampowered.com
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
