Linux back over 4% in the July 2026 Steam Survey

The Steam {Hardware} & Software program Survey for July 2026 is out now and going by the present knowledge, Linux has managed to leap again simply over 4%.

This is the present general working system share:

• Home windows – 93.67%
• Linux – 4.01%
• macOS – 2.32%

Oddly, a few of the comparisons appear like they’re in opposition to Could’s numbers not June, so we could find yourself seeing some corrections from Valve. We’ll control it.

The standard snapshot from our dedicated Steam Tracker page:

And the most well-liked 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 Version) 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 Version) 64 bit 1.66% +0.13%
• Nobara Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Version) 64 bit 1.64% -0.53%
• Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS 64 bit 1.53% +0.01%
• Different 13.91% +0.02%

The survey reveals that 1920 x 1080 continues to be the highest decision, by fairly a large margin too at 51.10%. The following hottest being 2560 x 1440 at 21.46%. We’re additionally seeing 32 GB RAM (36.93%) closing in on 16 GB (40.97%).

🌐 Exterior Sources: store.steampowered.com
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.