Steam Survey - October 2026 shows an uptick for the Linux user share

2 Nov 2026 at 7:48 am UTC | Last updated: 2 Nov 2026 at 7:55 am UTC
By Liam Squires-Hand

Valve just published the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for October 2026, showing an uptick in the Linux user share putting it back to nearly 4%.

The overall operating system numbers are:

• Windows 93.70% -1.33%.
• Linux 3.95% +0.90%.
• macOS 2.35% +0.43%.

Here's the snapshot from our dedicated Steam Tracker:

And for the most popular Linux distributions:

1. CachyOS 64 bit - 16.39%
2. SteamOS Holo 64 bit - 13.89%
3. Arch Linux 64 bit - 8.92%
4. Linux Mint 22.3 64 bit - 8.41%
5. SteamOS 64 bit - 8.09%
6. Bazzite 64 bit - 6.74%
7. Freedesktop SDK 26.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit - 4.00%
8. Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS 64 bit - 3.63%
9. Ubuntu Core 24 64 bit - 2.97%
10. Fedora Linux 44 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) 64 bit - 2.82%
11. Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) 64 bit - 1.88%
12. Fedora Linux 44 (Workstation Edition) 64 bit - 1.75%
13. Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS 64 bit - 1.55%
14. Nobara Linux 44 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) 64 bit - 1.53%
15. EndeavourOS Linux 64 bit - 1.39%
16. Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS 64 bit - 1.27%
17. Other - 14.76%

Interestingly, SteamOS now shows up twice. One for Holo, and one not, which might perhaps be the Steam Frame.

The Steam Frame also now shows up in the VR stats:

1. Meta Quest 3 - 27.27%
2. Oculus Quest 2 - 22.23%
3. Meta Quest 3S - 11.04%
4. Valve Index HMD - 9.90%
5. Pico 4 - 4.50%
6. Valve Steam Frame - 4.13%
7. Oculus Rift S - 3.26%
8. Sony PS VR2 - 2.41%
9. HTC Vive - 2.00%
10. Windows Mixed Reality - 1.79%

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