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Title: Linux User Share Hits a Multi-Year High On Steam For May 2025

Link: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/06/02/212...

Linux user share on Steam rose to 2.69% in May 2025 -- the highest level
recorded since at least 2018. GamingOnLinux reports: Overall user share for
May 2025: - Windows 95.45% -0.65% - Linux 2.69% +0.42% - macOS 1.85% +0.23%
Even with SteamOS 3 now being a little more widely available, the rise was
not from SteamOS directly. Filtering to just the Linux numbers gives us these
most popular distributions: - SteamOS Holo 64 bit 30.95% -2.83% - Arch Linux
64 bit 10.09% +0.64% - Linux Mint 22.1 64 bit 7.76% +1.56% - Freedesktop SDK
24.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 7.42% +1.01% - Ubuntu Core 22 64 bit 4.63%
+0.01% - Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS 64 bit 4.30% -0.14% - CachyOS 64 bit 2.54% +2.54%
- EndeavourOS Linux 64 bit 2.44% -0.02% - Manjaro Linux 64 bit 2.43% -0.18% -
Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS 64 bit 2.17% -0.06% - Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) 64 bit
1.99% -0.28% - Other 23.27% -2.27%

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